Category: Essays

Compensation by Ralph Waldo Emerson published in 1841. Compensation Ever since I was a boy, I have wished to write a discourse on Compensation: for it seemed to me when very young, that on this

Circles by Ralph Waldo Emerson published in 1841. Circles The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. It is

Character by Ralph Waldo Emerson   The sun set; but set not his hope: Stars rose; his faith was earlier up: Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye: And matched his

Art by Ralph Waldo Emerson is an essay –Essays, First Series [1841] Art Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer

Uses of Great Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1849 IT is natural to believe in great men. If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal, it would