"Poetry must be as new as foam and…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock."
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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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More Foam Quotes
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one of 78 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
— Dave Barry
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Half-caf, double-tall, non fat, whole-milk foam, bone-dry, half-pump mocha, half sugar in the raw, double cup, no lid, capp -…
— Linda Evangelista
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All the buildup and hype, everything else, is foam. The game is the beer.
— Marv Levy
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Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.
— Rumi
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Allah made the illusion look real and the real an illusion. He concealed the sea and made the foam visible,…
— Rumi
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A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of…
— Alton Brown
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Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same…
— John Keats
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Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.
— Gautama Buddha
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Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall…
— Robert Hunter
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Shampoo doesn’t have to foam, but we add foaming chemicals because people expect it each time they wash their hair.…
— Charles Duhigg
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Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the…
— Alfred Austin
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Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the…
— Wally Lamb
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