"Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?"
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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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I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.
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I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
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If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the…
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The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
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Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard…
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The more conscious we become the more consciously we choose that which we set in motion to create.
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