"The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine."
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2,823 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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More Adamantine Quotes
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O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not…
— William Blake
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Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
— Swami Vivekananda
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One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
— Alexander Pope
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
— Edmund Spenser
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I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against…
— Antony Gormley
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Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of diference.
— Varsha Sharma
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