Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Names Quotes, Doors Quotes

God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

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His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.

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Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.

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Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.

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Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

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The day will come when those knocking at the door will see it open; those who ask will receive; those who weep will be consoled.

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Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?

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I can't imagine I could have become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could open doors and walk through.

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Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.

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Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

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What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

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I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

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The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

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Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.

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I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends.

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Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.

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Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.

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You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.

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Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.

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