"Converse with a mind that is grandly simple,……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 quotes on this site.
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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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More Catching Quotes
This quote is filed under Catching Quotes,
one of 316 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
— Honore de Balzac
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With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around…
— Marlon Brando
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It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
— Jeff Bridges
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The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and…
— Warren Buffett
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People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a…
— John Jay Chapman
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The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a…
— Unknown Author
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I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching…
— Bobby Jones
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I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart…
— Edwin Way Teale
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I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind…
— Unknown Author
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There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Come away; poverty's catching.
— Aphra Behn
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