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Show Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone);…
- Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is…
- 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;…
- Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new…
- When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the show fiber has passed into your body.
- If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.
- One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
- All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. In these sentences…
- Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals
- The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.
- What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with…
- The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us…
- Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater…
- Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of…
- Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.
- You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of…
- Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his…
- People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
- A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and…
- Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and…
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