Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Ordinary Quotes

Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

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Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

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Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.

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Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

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One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and yet at the same time, It's a miracle, it's an ecstasy.

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When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.

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Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

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The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.

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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!

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Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.

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You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.

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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

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You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.

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This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.

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The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.

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Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.

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I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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