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Until Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
- Every man is an impossibility until he is born.
- 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…
- All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their…
- 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…
- Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.
- No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so…
- "Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture…
- You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.
- It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to…
- The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
- But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that…
- 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…
- Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.
- 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…
- He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
- A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the…
- Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well…
- Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated…
- It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know…
More Until Quotes
- You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world. — Richard Armour
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee. — Saint Augustine