"What is a farm but a mute gospel?……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sunit is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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2,824 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,824 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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A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories…
— Winston Churchill
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Love denied blights the soul we owe to God.
— William Shakespeare
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Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or…
— George Bernard Shaw
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How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If…
— Bonnie Raitt
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I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of…
— Isak Dinesen
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Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit…
— William Blake
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America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty,…
— Stewart Udall
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It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!
— Carl Jung
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Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.
— Ingrid Newkirk
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Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the…
— Charles Lamb
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Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the…
— Roger Scruton
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