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Light Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them…
- All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their…
- The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.
- When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life…
- The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.
- From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
- Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
- The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
- Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of…
- The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector…
- We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
- A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of…
- The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied…
- There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give…
- I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her wealth to man;…
- The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of…
- A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light…
- A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the…
- Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries…
- Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow…
- Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary…
- Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore…
- The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.
- Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would…
- Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.
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- There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt
- You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in… — Richard Bach
- I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues. — Michele Bachmann
- The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
- Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs… — Michele Bachmann