"We lie in the lap of immense intelligence." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We lie in the lap of immense intelligence."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we…
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The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of…
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
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Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of…
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Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and…
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I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a…
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this…
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The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages…
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be…
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What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
— Leo Tolstoy
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This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale…
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