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Works Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice,…
- Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
- A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
- Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other…
- There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an…
- The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.
- Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter…
- It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive,…
- Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good…
- Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.
- Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is…
- Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.
- God is Unity, but always works in variety.
- What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous…
- Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point…
- Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of…
- In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
More Works Quotes
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- 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
- Hardware works best when it matters the least. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. — Saint Augustine
- The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. — Sri Aurobindo
- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
- What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
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- While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they… — Teresa of Avila
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