"Life is a train of moods like a……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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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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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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