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They put their fingers on their lips, -
The Powers above;
The seas their islands clip,
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They love but name not love.Posted on July 30, 2010 via Cat's Cradle with 16 notes
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Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys
Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs;
Who steer the plough, but can not steer their feet
Clear of the grave.Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) -
What lies behind us
and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to
what lies within us.Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes,
as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, from the essay Experience
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These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower, there is no more; in the leafless root, there is no less. Its nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. There is no time to it. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
(His birthday was on this date 1803)
I discovered a truth that seemed to me a revelation... There seemed to be two universes which I termed the world and the earth, in either of which I could choose to live. Then I saw there was but one, and that I was living on the earth looking directly into infinity. ~ Harlan Hubbard
