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Best Cannot Sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- You cannot see the mountain near...
- What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
- Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid,…
- Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.
- Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.
- It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
- I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side…
- [A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand....
- Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in…
- Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as…
- Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel…
- I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
- 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…
- I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
- Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance…
- The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.
- Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.
- We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.
- You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.
- A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay…
- How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet…
- A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions…
- Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.
- Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer…
- You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself
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