"Life is not measured by its length, but…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth."
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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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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The…
— Saint Augustine
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I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin,…
— Emilie Autumn
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
— Francis Bacon
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and…
— Ansel Adams
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No, I think the pitching today has more depth.
— Ernie Banks
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During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that…
— Ernie Banks
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The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in…
— Henry Adams
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between…
— Hans Bender
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No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
— Georges Bernanos
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