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Sun Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

47 Sun quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The sun is described as a steady fire that gives light and warmth to everything, never running out. Emerson also points out that nature works slowly, building its work atom by atom, teaching patience. He reminds us that the sun’s rays reach all seasons and even those who do not notice them.

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The sun shines today also.

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Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

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The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

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To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

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The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

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I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.

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Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.

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Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.

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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do…

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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun…

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits…

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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask…

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Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on…

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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their…

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As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the…

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A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his…

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O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee…

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The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music everyone, To the cadence of the whirling world Which dances around the…

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It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the…

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The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of…

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For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For…

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As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold…

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By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can…

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We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a…

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I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself anylonger for you, or you. If you can love…

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We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;…

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there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

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We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these…

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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear…

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A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the…

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The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the…

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We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the…

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If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat…

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All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat,…

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Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men…

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A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he…

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Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is…

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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