"The sign and credentials of the poet are……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold"
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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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The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and…
— Chin-Ning Chu
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Many of us were taught that no sentence should begin with "but." If that's what you learned, unlearn it -…
— William Zinsser
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The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than…
— Arthur W. Pink
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Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected…
— Joseph Sobran
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Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Council on Foreign Relations is "the establishment." Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions…
— John Rarick
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To be prophets, in particular, by demonstrating how Jesus lived on this earth, and to proclaim how the kingdom of…
— Pope Francis
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I've been reading Ed Brubaker comics since the first appearance of Ed Brubaker comics and every single time he announces…
— Brian Michael Bendis
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Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the…
— Walter Brueggemann
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The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get…
— James K. Morrow
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Intercourse is an assertion of mastery, one that announces his own higher caste and proves it upon a victim who…
— Kate Millett
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