Ur Eyes Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

15 Ur Eyes quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s voice brings a philosophical edge to the theme of ‘Ur Eyes,’ offering fifteen passages that probe the deeper currents behind sight and insight.

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We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

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Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

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We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

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Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

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Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our…

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It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have…

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Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind…

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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find…

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Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But…

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We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to…

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Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology…

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A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes,…

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'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those…

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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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Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience,…

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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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“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…

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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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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

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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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