"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free."
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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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A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
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One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed…
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If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.
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Oh! yes, (the prayer meeting) is the place to meet with the Holy Ghost, and this is the way to…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray…
— William Tyndale
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Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed…
— Arthur W. Pink
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Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His…
— Arthur W. Pink
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Prayer is not intended to change God's purpose, nor is it to move Him to form fresh purposes. God has…
— Arthur W. Pink
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Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a…
— Bella Abzug
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Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done…
— Alexander the Great
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...the existence and increase of our race and nation, the sustenance of its children and the purity of its blood,…
— Adolf Hitler
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All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law…
— John Ruskin
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