Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Power Quotes, Elements Quotes

Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

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A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

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Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense.

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I think what will happen with Donald Trump is there are going to be certain elements of his temperament that will not serve him well unless he recognizes them and corrects them.

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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

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Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

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When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.

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I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

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His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.

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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

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Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

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