"Whom God has put asunder, why should man…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?"
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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 way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen…
— Francis Bacon
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of…
— Adam Sedgwick
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He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great…
— Thomas Browne
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This democracy of ours, which sometimes we've treated so lightly, is more than ever a comfortable cloak, so let us…
— Ronald Reagan
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Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder
— Kim Stanley
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What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
— Aldous Huxley
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History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings,…
— Charles Darwin
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All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow…
— Harriet Martineau
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Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads.…
— Wendell Willkie
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