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Stand Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.
- Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
- We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
- 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…
- In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact…
- We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when…
- The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other…
- If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new…
- If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I…
- There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if…
- The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual…
- For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we…
- 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…
- Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.
- The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
- Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted,…
- If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new…
- Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the…
- The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To…
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