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Words Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
- If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent…
- 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…
- In good writing, words become one with things.
- 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…
- Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
- In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along,…
- That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.
- Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries…
- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing…
- An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
- Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.
- Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.
- 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…
- It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.
- Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.
- Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard…
- What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
- No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
- Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October…
- Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.
- Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater…
- Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will…
- Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.
- There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress
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- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe
- Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and… — Rowan Atkinson
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the… — Teresa of Avila
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila