"Writing should be the settlement of dew on…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf."
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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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More Dew Quotes
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I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
— Wendell Berry
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Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread…
— Geraldine Brooks
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
— Robert Browning
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
— Samuel Butler
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes…
— Lord Byron
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
— Lord Byron
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For keenest enjoyment, I visit when the dew is on them, or in cloudy weather, or when the rain is…
— David Fairchild
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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
— Lord Byron
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I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew.
— William Shakespeare
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Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind…
— Robert Greene
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Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue....
— William C. Bryant
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