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Stars Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

63 Stars quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Stars appear as quiet guides in the night, shining even when darkness surrounds us. Emerson’s verses link music and the whirling world to the steady light of the north star, suggesting that intellect can be as transparent as night sky. The quotes also hint that looking at stars can create distance from everyday worries.

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When the night is darkest, the stars come out.

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Earth endures; Stars abide.

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When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

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When it's dark enough men see stars.

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Every time you wink the stars move.

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When it is darkest, we can see the stars.

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When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

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The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

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It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

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“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.”

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“The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible”

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

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One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

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Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory?…

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But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will…

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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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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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Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making…

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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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In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life…

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I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity…

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I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder,…

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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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In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the…

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We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation…

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Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and…

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The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.…

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations…

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The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music every ore, To the candence of the whirling world Which dances round…

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“Days" Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems…

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Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept…

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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when…

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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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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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For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments,…

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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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THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived…

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Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st…

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

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

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