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Word Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.
- 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 poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why…
- Love is our highest word and the synonym for God.
- It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully…
- Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can…
- So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their…
- I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her wealth to man;…
- Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed…
- 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…
- Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law,…
- Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness…
- There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word...
- What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say.
- Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
- There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.
- A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
- All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. In these sentences…
- The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when…
- It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.
- A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions…
- Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the…
- The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes…
- The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.
- Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
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- The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. — Bella Abzug
- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster
- The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the… — Ibrahim Babangida
- I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word! — Lauren Bacall
- A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. — Burt Bacharach