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Finds Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his…
- If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.
- Science finds it methods.
- Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
- The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
- Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its…
- We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus,…
- When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.
- The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any…
- Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to…
- Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- 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…
- 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…
- There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance…
- 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…
- The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets,…
- The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal…
- The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment…
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- The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. — Honore de Balzac
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- The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron,… — Henry Ward Beecher
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