"Coal lay in ledges under the ground since……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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 call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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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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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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If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
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