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Body Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his…
- Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
- The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other…
- The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anewÂ… it passes into other…
- The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyoneÂ… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is…
- When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the…
- When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the show fiber has passed into your body.
- Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow…
- The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.
- The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
- A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is…
- The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and…
- Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?
- [on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth…
- This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
- The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor,…
- In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek…
- In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
- We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
- To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney…
- But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him…
- Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
- There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great…
More Body Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine