Worship Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

13 Worship quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson offers thirteen thoughtful lines that probe the nature of reverence, blending his transcendental outlook with a keen eye for inner experience.

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Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

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And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

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It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

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The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

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Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

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I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is…

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A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for…

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The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast.…

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The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That…

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I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to…

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Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the…

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I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a…

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“Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on…

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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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