"Nature is too thin a screen; the glory……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere"
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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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A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be…
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Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night…
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I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or…
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I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
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It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk.…
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Pressure bursts pipes. I thank God for giving me peace of mind to overcome pressure. The difference between winning and…
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Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has…
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I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell…
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— Ron Paul
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