Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Diamonds

• Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Time

• The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1345, Delphi Classics

• Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jewels, Jewelry, Moments

• More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.37

• Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Civilization, Black

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.362

• The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to hermother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Song, Morning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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