Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Hands Quotes, Joy Quotes

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

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REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.

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We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

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I hear better with a pen in my hand.

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... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.

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In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

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On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are "solved" to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.

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I can press when there needs to be pressed; I can hold hands when there needs to be - hold hands.

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Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

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Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

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For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. Religion, on the other hand, deals only with evaluations of human thought and action: it cannot justifiably speak of facts and relationships between facts.

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if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

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Love for thy love , and hand for hand I give.

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It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

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So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?

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Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

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But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless.

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I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creatures is born. But only one who can appease their conscience can take over their freedom […] Instead of taking men's freedom from them, Thou didst make it greater than ever! Didst Thou forget that man prefers peace, and even death, to freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil?

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Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.

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