"The tempered light of the woods is like…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning."
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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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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
— Isaac Asimov
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions…
— Mary Astell
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
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Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number…
— Margaret Atwood
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
— Saint Augustine
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
— Sri Aurobindo
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded…
— Irving Babbitt
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You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you…
— Richard Bach
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I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.
— Michele Bachmann
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The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.
— Michele Bachmann
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Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which…
— Michele Bachmann
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