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Ears Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.
- The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
- Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question…
- Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting…
- Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
- A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom…
- The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and…
- Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.
- There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.
- There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.
- Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard,…
- The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.
- In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of…
- Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and…
- Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or…
More Ears Quotes
- Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! — Victoria Abril
- I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears. — Dave Attell
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of… — Albert Bandura
- Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them… — Dave Barry
- Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple… — John Adams
- I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink. — Mario Batali
- Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. — Thomas Beecham
- I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears. — Adele
- Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin… — Robert Benchley