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Things Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
- Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.
- Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.
- He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.
- In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.
- From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
- In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.
- 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…
- In good writing, words become one with things.
- Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the…
- 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…
- The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never…
- We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which…
- Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
- Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the…
- Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better…
- For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things…
- If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course…
- The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening…
- Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.
- Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.
- Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then…
- I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the…
- Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
- There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
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