"Why should I cumber myself with regrets that……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 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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More Capacious Quotes
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work…
— Peter Ackroyd
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A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life,…
— Stephen Greenblatt
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I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown;…
— Charles Lamb
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In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical. This is either because that figure is the most…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres.…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious…
— Henry Giroux
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When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is…
— Wendell Berry
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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names…
— Horace
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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
— Emily Dickinson
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Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but…
— Hilary Mantel
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