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Seen Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we…
- Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is…
- Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.
- Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.
- The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
- The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts…
- We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty,…
- It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.
- The field cannot be seen from within the field.
- 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…
- Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because…
- So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and . . .…
- Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual…
- There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.
- The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who…
- Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.
- They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.
- Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty…
- The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor,…
- All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
- A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which…
- Sin seen from the thought, is a diminution or less: seen from the conscience or will, itis pravity or bad. The intellectnames it shade, absence…
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