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Stone Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the…
- The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character…
- Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
- Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the…
- We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in…
- The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free;…
- Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
- Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the…
- If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I…
- Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty…
- Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
- Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a…
- Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
- The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by…
- Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder willspeak out of stone walls.
More Stone Quotes
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. — Francis Bacon
- Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and… — Ansel Adams
- I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone. — Tyra Banks
- Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not… — P T Barnum
- People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain… — Todd Barry
- Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. — Henry Ward Beecher
- I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's… — Halle Berry
- Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis. — Nuno Bettencourt
- On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in… — Nellie Bly
- Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. — Jorge Luis Borges
- I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on. — David Bowie