"Is the acorn better than the oak which……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?"
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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 Acorn Quotes
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one of 53 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
— Francis Bacon
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You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of…
— Mario Batali
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird…
— James Allen
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The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.
— Unknown Author
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat…
— Rollo May
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Eventually, even a blind squirell will find an acorn.
— Jim Cornette
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What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if…
— Philip Roth
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If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking.…
— Marianne Williamson
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
— Edward Abbey
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I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let…
— Ted Nugent
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Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back…
— Shirley Ann Grau
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