At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Related Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: / Lest thou give thine honour ... BIBLE Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine:
Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,
Whose weak... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He told me that when (Ralph Waldo) Emerson came to California, (Muir) tried to get him to come out a... THEODORE ROOSEVELT And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say ... BIBLE And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not fo... BIBLE Ah, much deluded! lay aside Thy threats, and anger misapplied! Art not afraid with sounds ... JOHN MILTON Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word. BIBLE Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant... BIBLE The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. RALPH WALDO EMERSON We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at las... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Farewell, vain world, I've had enough of thee,
And Valies't not what thou Can'st say of me;
Th... EPITAPH Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in t... JESUS CHRIST Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he ... BIBLE As a leader, I believe it's important to have an open door with your staff. Those who want to le... RANEY ARONSON-RATH And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteou... BIBLE Ralph Waldo Emerson “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and... RALPH WALDO EMERSON I didn't care at all about losing, but I just didn't want Emerson to feel bad, You know, I didn't wi... TERI HATCHER Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wo... JULIUS CAESAR Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You come in through the front door or not at all, JANE WITHERS They say the crazies come out at night. I say the crazies come out during election year: Elections h... CRISS JAMI I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to lo... BRANDON SANDERSON Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. -Ralph Wa... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute ... JEREMY TAYLOR Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not the tr... BRAM STOKER Spirit divine, attend our prayers. And make this house thy home; Descend with all thy gracious p... ANDREW REED Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy. RAINN WILSON Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years... PAUL HAWKEN I know, 0 Caesar, that thou art awaiting my arrival with impatience, that thy true heart of a friend... HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. RALPH WALDO EMERSON When the women come for their hour-long appointment, often times when they come through our front do... DANA HARRISON And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to... BIBLE Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be wit... BIBLE Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of al... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. O... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs: / And the river ... BIBLE I tell all the rookies that come into our series and all the young drivers they can come ask me anyt... AL UNSER Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee Save Me, save only Me? All which I took from the... FRANCIS G. THOMPSON Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man... BIBLE I didn't care at all about losing, but I just didn't want Emerson to feel bad, You know, I d... TERI HATCHER My goal coming in was to win a state title dominantly. I wanted to come in and major my way through,... COLE SCHMITT The frosting shirt from your cake fight weeks earlier – just like the one you have in your closet.... SARAH OCKLER The Two Pots
A river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of b... AESOP Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy to... STEVIE SMITH But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Fa... BIBLE You must come home with me and be my guest;
You will give joy to me, and I will do
All that is... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I tell all the rookies that come into our series and all the young drivers they can come ask me anyt... AL UNSER Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 Lord, it belongs not to my car... RICHARD BAXTER Woe unto you if you have come to this world just to fear man,for man is nothing but ordinary dust wi... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair–the... STEPHEN KING "When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanne... RALPH WALDO EMERSON The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man ... FRANCIS BACON SR. Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN He knocks once against the side. I don’t get it at first, and then I laugh. Let’s estab... RICK YANCEY For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the opp... BIBLE But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young me... BIBLE It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only ... D.H. LAWRENCE Your going to come across people in your life that say all the right things at the right times. But ... NICHOLAS SPARKS You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right ti... NICHOLAS SPARKS Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these un... BIBLE What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame hea... JEANETTE WINTERSON They fed us a lot. The coach at Davis said they want me to come in and play my first year and be a s... BROCK ZYLSTRA Easter Almighty and everlasting God, Who hast preserved me by Thy fatherly care through all the ... SAMUEL JOHNSON Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grac... BIBLE Could thou not make those that have been made, and be now, and that are for to come, at once; that t... COMPTON GAGE I'm a nice guy, but not all the time. There are these personalities in me, so many of them. They... EL DEBARGE Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word. BIBLE And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou n... BIBLE Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food. DEAN MCLAUGHLIN All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; pol... FRANK CHODOROV Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of t... BIBLE O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything bu... GEORGE MACDONALD O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thin... BIBLE Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall... PSALM 91:9-11 Urge to come to terms with the "Outside," by absorbing, interiorizing it. I won't come out, you must... JIM MORRISON And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with sta... BIBLE Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should
be an inventor.
- Ralph Wald... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Already, I know that all of this will stay with me forever. It'll haunt me, but I also fear it will ... MARKUS ZUSAK The Shepherd's Boy and the Wolf
A sheperd boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought ... AESOP [It's fair to say that Mike Montgomery loves Baron Davis .] Two or three times he came up to me and ... MIKE MONTGOMERY All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table. GARY BAUER Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch
At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb;
Keep clean, be a... HENRY VAUGHAN ("THE SILURIST") So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as
an armed man. BIBLE If you cling to an idea as the inalterable truth, then when the truth does come in person and knock ... UDANA SUTTA If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men ... DAVID LIVINGSTONE The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? ... EDDIE TRUNK His wit invites you by his looks to come,
But when you knock, it never is at home. WILLIAM COWPER Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dis... BIBLE I will continue to knock the door even unreturned. No doubt my finger will be injured, but it will h... IMRAN NAZIR And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make hast... BIBLE If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully. LANCE REDDICK What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, an... JOHN MILTON And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you u... BIBLE Give me all of you!!! I don’t want so much of your time, so much of your talents and money, and so... C.S. LEWIS I'm going to address that at the end of the season. Keep a list of all the things you want to ask me... JOE TORRE And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have bee... BLACK ELK It's refreshing. It kind of stinks for my family to be at home and be without power. But for me to c... DAVID BOWENS In Springtime, O Dionysos, To thy holy temple come, To Elis with thy Graces, Rushing ... PLUTARCH
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distan... RALPH WALDO EMERSON The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks con... RALPH WALDO EMERSON When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your... RALPH WALDO EMERSON If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore. RALPH WALDO EMERSON What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicte... RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Artist always has the masters in his eyes. RALPH WALDO EMERSON What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent t... RALPH WALDO EMERSON The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. RALPH WALDO EMERSON A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation. RALPH WALDO EMERSON I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. RALPH WALDO EMERSON I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Music causes us to think eloquently. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality. RALPH WALDO EMERSON We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The world is his who has money to go over it. RALPH WALDO EMERSON