"There is a relation between the hours of……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body dependson the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should beinstructed by the ages and theages explained by the hours."
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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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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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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself…
— Honore de Balzac
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual,…
— Annie Besant
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
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