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Place Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.
- Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.
- 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…
- A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events;…
- Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the…
- Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the…
- In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along,…
- The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening…
- This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.
- The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.
- Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.
- In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of…
- Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
- Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things…
- To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to…
- There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is…
- Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
- The pleasure of life is according to the man who lives it, and not according to the work or the place.
More Place Quotes
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden