"Every spirit makes its house, and we can……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant."
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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 Every Spirit Quotes
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Every spirit makes its house, but as after wards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Let every knee bend before Thee, O greatness of my God, so supremely humbled in the Sacred Host. May every…
— Margaret Mary Alacoque
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Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and…
— Marilynne Robinson
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows…
— William Shakespeare
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The world teaches birth control. Tragically, many of our sisters subscribe to its pills and practices when they could easily…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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...we must first scrutinize thoroughly anything appearing in our hearts or any saying suggested to us. Has it come purified…
— John Cassian
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Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for…
— Eugene Delacroix
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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