"I have heard with admiring submission the experience……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow."
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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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To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.
— Nick Cannon
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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play…
— Christian Morgenstern
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No person loving or admiring himself is alone.
— Theodor Reik
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The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had…
— Max Euwe
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In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn,…
— Thomas Guthrie
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Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have…
— Lewis Howard Latimer
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We must open our eyes to admire God who hides and at the same time reveals himself in things and…
— Pope John Paul II
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I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal…
— Albert Einstein
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In romance, I can’t stand this scenario: A woman is awakened to find a strange man in her bedroom—and then…
— Kristin Nelson
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With all of the visual distraction constantly inundating us in the form of our devices and screens, I really derive…
— Nick Offerman
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