Sorrow Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

14 Sorrow quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s musings on sadness are brief but pointed, making this a handy spot for anyone looking for a quick philosophical lift. The 14 quotes capture his characteristic blend of optimism and realism.

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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

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Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

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Sorrow makes us all children again.

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What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

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Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

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Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

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The rain has spoiled the farmer's day; Shall sorrow put my books away? Thereby are two days lost.

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not…

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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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Silent rushes the swift Lord Through ruined systems still restored, Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless, Plants with worlds the wilderness; Waters…

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We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a…

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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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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness…

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

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