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Ground Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments -…
- As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me…
- There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
- Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and…
- Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it…
- My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough…
- Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.
- 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…
- There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime,…
- If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must…
- Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I…
- though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot…
- The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
- The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself in images. A…
- Standing on the bare ground,my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I…
More Ground Quotes
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky. — Paul Auster
- I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,… — Paul Auster
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila
- A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too… — Sai Baba
- The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was… — Michelle Bachelet
- Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which… — Honore de Balzac
- Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. — Douglas Adams
- In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. — Douglas Adams
- Daisies are like sunshine to the ground. — Drew Barrymore
- To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it… — Joseph Addison