"Every word was once a poem." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every word was once a poem."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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 Every Word Quotes
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one of 406 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of…
— Hosea Ballou
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
— Samuel Beckett
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I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single…
— Truman Capote
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Every word written is a victory against death.
— Unknown Author
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For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be…
— Martin Luther
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Every thought you think and every word you speak is affirming something.
— Louise Hay
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Notice carefully every word here. It is not our prayer which draws Jesus into our hearts. Nor is it our…
— Ole Hallesby
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When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire,…
— John of Kronstadt
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I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. Jesus is too colossal for…
— Albert Einstein
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A mother has far greater influence on her children than anyone else, and she must realize that every word she…
— Nathan Eldon Tanner
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The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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