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Universe Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

64 Universe quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A starry night makes us think about how tiny we are compared to the huge universe. The quotes speak about trusting yourself, because the universe seems to have placed you for a reason. They also note that pain and loss are personal, while the universe keeps its own steady rhythm.

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The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A day is a miniature eternity.

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Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

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The universe is the externalization of the soul.

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Man is a piece of the universe made alive

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“There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile.”

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There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

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“He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of Pain.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

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Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

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[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul...

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For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things,…

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Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a…

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Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful…

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No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression…

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Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the…

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though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed…

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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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The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress,…

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I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is…

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The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we…

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In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an…

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Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here,…

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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which…

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My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world; I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the…

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Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no…

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Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What…

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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;…

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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 taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

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All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

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They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

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When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

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The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

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Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.

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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

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Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

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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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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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