"If a man's eye is on the Eternal,…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow."
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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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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
— Teresa of Avila
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen…
— Honore de Balzac
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I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China,…
— Antonio Banderas
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind…
— John Adams
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and…
— Annie Besant
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