"Every thought which genius and piety throw into……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world."
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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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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
— William Blake
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The eye altering, alters all.
— William Blake
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things…
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The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my…
— Oswald Chambers
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
— Claude Monet
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Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our…
— Drake
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Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or…
— Gerald Brenan
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Every action alters the soul of the doer.
— Oswald Spengler
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If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental…
— Unknown Author
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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position…
— Joan Didion
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Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for…
— Anna Funder
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Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess…
— Barry Lopez
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