"Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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2,824 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
— Arthur Ashe
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
— Franz Grillparzer
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know…
— Lucretius
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Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and…
— Alice Meynell
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The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from…
— Pope Pius XII
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Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.
— John Owen
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Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature…
— Rajneesh
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Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.
— Robert Browning
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Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the…
— Helen Keller
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The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their…
— Pericles
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Absolutely. If a Muslim who has-who is-a practicing Muslim who believes the word of the Koran to be the word…
— Brigitte Gabriel
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In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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