Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Long Quotes, Use Quotes

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

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Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.

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Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.

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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

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I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with the words of the Gospel and they received it without pretence on their part and with some degree of faith. However, it would not avail them for their spiritual salvation if they were lacking in that charity by which they might be implanted in the Catholic Church.

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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.

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The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.

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Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.

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I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

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But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

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You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.

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As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.

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When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.

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But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.

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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him.

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Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!

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We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

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