Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Years Quotes, Stones Quotes

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

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Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

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I wept not — so to stone I grew within.

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Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling. [Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.]

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Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

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The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

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Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

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That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

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"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

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To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?

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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.

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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

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She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

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Failing is another stepping-stone to greatness.

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The Stone the Builders Rejected.

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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

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Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

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No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.

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Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

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One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.

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