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Call Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
- Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.
- Whatever limits us we call fate.
- Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
- The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why…
- There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
- The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended…
- We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
- "Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother."
- Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake 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…
- What we call results are beginnings.
- The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who…
- It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive,…
- The religions we call false were once true.
- Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the…
- Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well…
- That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable…
- In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of…
- Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.
- We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result…
- It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
- That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.
- Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for…
- Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.
More Call Quotes
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just… — Dave Attell
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what… — Jane Austen
- Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully… — Paul Auster
- I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' — Lauren Bacall
- I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head,… — Lauren Bacall