"The noblest ministry of nature is to stand……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God."
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2,824 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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Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well…
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In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect…
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— Jason Hawes
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Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with…
— Gautama Buddha
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I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine…
— Zhang Xiaogang
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A specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it;…
— Hollis Frampton
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She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a…
— William Wordsworth
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...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman,…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way…
— Woody Allen
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We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows.…
— Joan Didion
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Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of…
— Thomas Browne
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I often see through things right to the apparition itself.
— Grace Paley
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