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Away Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the…
- My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can…
- He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.
- Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal…
- I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the…
- Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has…
- I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.
- Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make…
- In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must…
- The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what…
- Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why…
- Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.
- We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.
- Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will…
- The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
- Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards…
- When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to…
- I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their…
- They (the days) come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do…
- No Life can pompless pass away The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here
More Away Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius