"What you do thunders above your head so……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak."
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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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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
— Thomas Beecham
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If you were only to listen, it becomes meditation. Without meditation you cannot hear. What is the meaning of meditation?…
— Rajneesh
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Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I…
— Norman Mailer
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I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of…
— Joy Harjo
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The falcon cannot hear the falconer
— William Butler Yeats
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Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together…
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God
— Mother Teresa
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You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in…
— William Shakespeare
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Bid faith look through the key-hole of the promise, and tell thee what it sees there laid up for him…
— William Gurnall
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