"Man is a stream whose source is hidden.……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the…
— Saint Augustine
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with…
— Daniel Boone
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To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history…
— Gretel Ehrlich
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Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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But it's the wrestler who can put the fatigue out of his mind and break through the "wall," like a…
— Unknown Author
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Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
— Amy Lowell
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The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the…
— Aeschylus
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.…
— Martin Luther
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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.
— Winston Churchill
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