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Heaven Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

44 Heaven quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson writes that heaven can protect a rare character like a burr shields fruit. He notes that while God may forgive sins, awkwardness finds no forgiveness anywhere. He also says our thoughts can imprison us in a fleeting heaven of ideas.

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We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

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Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.

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The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.

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The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

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Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.

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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

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God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

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Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other…

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Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the…

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Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

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Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and…

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The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens…

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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and…

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Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life;…

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The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the…

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In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on…

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For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this…

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The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his…

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The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so,…

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Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh…

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We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift.…

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Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the…

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Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven…

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...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in…

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Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung…

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Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds…

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Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the…

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For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee;…

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As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their…

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I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that…

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Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

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When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has…

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We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we…

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued…

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He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at…

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We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you.…

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For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring…

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The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the…

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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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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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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…

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

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

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