Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

O tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire; One morn is in the mighty heaven, And one in our desire.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Desire
• Heaven
• Fire
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• Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.

  

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• O tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire; One morn is in the mighty heaven, And one in our desire.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Desire
  • Heaven
  • Fire