"Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise."
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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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More Compartments Quotes
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On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as…
— Ernst Mayr
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Danger lurks when we divide ourselves with expressions such as "my private life," "my professional life," or even "my best…
— Russell M. Nelson
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The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments…
— Virginia Woolf
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Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations,…
— Arthur Koestler
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Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its…
— Bernard Law Montgomery
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Let the Truth be known, no ship is unsinkable. The bigger the ship, the easier it is to sink her.…
— Thomas Andrews
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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in…
— Dale Carnegie
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Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension.
— Russell M. Nelson
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There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.
— Alexis Carrel
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In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want…
— Jean Genet
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One's life has many compartments.
— Harold Pinter
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The fact is, Scripture is filled with divine actions that don't fit our human standards of logic or morality. But…
— Francis Chan
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