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Turn Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred…
- A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a…
- Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question…
- The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if…
- The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.
- More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn…
- 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…
- A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a…
- If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and…
- There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.
- A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.
- It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
- Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop
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