"Nature abhors the old." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nature abhors the old."

— 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…
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
A little praise goes a great ways.

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Nature abhors a garden. — Michael Pollan
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. — Henry David Thoreau
Think of yourself as a container for wealth. If your container is small and your money is big, what's going… — T. Harv Eker
This loving person is a person who abhors waste-waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste.… — Leo Buscaglia
Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset. — Clare Boothe Luce
Nature abhors annihilation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly… — Gottfried Leibniz
The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in… — Khalil Gibran
What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence. — Joseph Brodsky
That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance. — Bernard DeVoto
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and… — Albrecht Durer

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