"Nature is full of freaks, and now puts……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters."
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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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I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower…
— Mark Slouka
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Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long,- Even wonder'd at, because…
— John Dryden
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And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king…
— Bible
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And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a…
— Bible
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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated…
— Abraham Lincoln
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An ancient musician informed me, that there were some famous lutes that attained not their full seasoning and best resonance…
— Robert Boyle
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