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Proportion Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
- Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.
- Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
- We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own…
- Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the…
- A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.
- Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round…
- A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation,…
- So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth?…
- Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants…
More Proportion Quotes
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance,… — Charles Babbage
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- 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
- The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
- Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or… — William Blake
- To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of… — William Blake
- Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. — Orlando Bloom
- We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. — Elizabeth Bowen
- The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do… — Madeleine Albright