"Every great and commanding movement in the annals……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm"
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2,823 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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More Annals Quotes
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The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on…
— Unknown Author
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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and…
— Hugh Miller
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Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!
— Thomas Carlyle
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Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire…
— Tony Snow
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If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as…
— Pope Leo X
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In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us…
— Charles Shaar Murray
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To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty…
— James Hutton
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Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code
— Martin Fowler
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In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul…
— Vito Fossella
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