--- title: "7 Dust Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson" description: "7 Dust quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Plus more from Ralph Waldo Emerson and more Dust sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d93/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_deities_by-virtue-of-the-deity-thought-renews-it_276062.jpg" --- > [By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/by-virtue-of-the-deity-thought-renews-itself-inexhaustibly-every-day/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d93/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_deities_by-virtue-of-the-deity-thought-renews-it_276062.jpg) > [Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/nature-is-no-sentimentalist-does-not-cosset-or-pamper-us-we-must-see/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d18/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_apples_nature-is-no-sentimentalist-does-not-cos_482108.jpg) > [What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent; Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain, Heart's love will meet thee again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/what-is-excellent-as-god-lives-is-permanent-hearts-are-dust-hearts/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d99/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_dust_what-is-excellent-as-god-lives-is-perman_955357.png) > [So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/so-nigh-is-grandeur-to-our-dust-so-near-is-god-to-man-when-duty/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f85/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_dust_so-nigh-is-grandeur-to-our-dust-so-near_1114652.png) > [Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/dreams-have-a-poetic-integrity-and-truth-this-limbo-and-dust-hole-of/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1d/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_certain_dreams-have-a-poetic-integrity-and-truth_1379509.png) > [I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-see-the-spectacle-of-morning-from-the-hilltop-over-against-my-house/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e94/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_active_i-see-the-spectacle-of-morning-from-the_2318489.png) > [Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/truth-has-not-single-victories-all-things-are-its-organs-not-only/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/608/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_all-things_truth-has-not-single-victories-all-thing_2754374.png) ## Other authors on Dust ## More by Ralph Waldo Emerson > [The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-history-of-mankind-interests-us-only-as-it-exhibits-a-steady-gain/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-we-will-not-interfere-with-our-thought-but-will-act-entirely-or/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-there-is-any-period-one-would-desire-to-be-born-in-is-it-not-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-cannot-speak-but-he-judges-himself-with-his-will-or-against-his/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/consideration-is-the-soil-in-which-wisdom-may-be-expected-to-grow-and/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-then-creative-reading-as-well-as-creative-writing-when-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [The order of things consents to virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-order-of-things-consents-to-virtue/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Life only avails, not the having lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/life-only-avails-not-the-having-lived/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/another-success-is-the-post-office-with-its-educating-energy/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-child-reminds-us-that-playtime-is-an-essential-part-of-our-daily/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/no-man-can-be-criticised-but-by-a-greater-than-he-do-not-then-read/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/coal-lay-in-ledges-under-the-ground-since-the-flood-until-a-laborer/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-therefore-i-had-nothing-better-to-do-than-to-think/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-a-library-we-are-surrounded-by-many-hundreds-of-dear-friends-but/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-compensations-of-calamity-are-made-apparent-to-the-understanding/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dust/ralph-waldo-emerson/#itemlist", "name": "7 Dust Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/by-virtue-of-the-deity-thought-renews-itself-inexhaustibly-every-day/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d93/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_deities_by-virtue-of-the-deity-thought-renews-it_276062.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d93/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_deities_by-virtue-of-the-deity-thought-renews-it_276062.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d93/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_deities_by-virtue-of-the-deity-thought-renews-it_276062.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though…” — Ralph Waldo Emerson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. 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