"The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature."
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2,824 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,824 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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I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat.…
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If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights…
— Saint Basil
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I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
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In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle,…
— Lewis Black
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My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small…
— Anthony Bourdain
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer…
— Jerry Brown
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Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up…
— Luke Bryan
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There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
— Bill Bryson
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Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin,…
— Will Carleton
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Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president -…
— Jimmy Carter
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The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of…
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