"I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy."
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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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More Barn Quotes
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one of 103 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
— Matsuo Basho
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I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
— Johnny Carson
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I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself…
— Oscar Wilde
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The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and…
— Edna Lewis
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I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my…
— John Updike
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To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole…
— Charles Dickens
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You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their…
— Don Meyer
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We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who…
— Don Meyer
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You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only…
— Genevieve Gorder
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Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains,…
— Saadi
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A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn…
— James Thomas Fields
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