"A world in the hand is worth two in the bush."

Metaphor, World, Values

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"A world in the hand is worth two in the bush."

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"Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

Metaphor, Time, Change, Values

"Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Metaphor, Weeds, Flowers, Garden, Shadow

"Grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Metaphor, Grace, Life, Fate, Nature

"Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Metaphor, Stars, Sun, Light, Darkness

"A world in the hand is worth two in the bush."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Metaphor, World, Values

"If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean's insanity.Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Metaphor, Ocean, Insanity, Heart, Vanity

"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump, you may be freeing him from being a camel."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Metaphor, Burden, Identity, Existence

"Poison is like the drowned, it always floats."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

Metaphor, Danger, Poison, Mystery

"Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Metaphor, Disappearance, Parallel, Movement, Escape

"This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you."

Lemony Snicket, American Author

Metaphor, Threat, Danger, Violence

Explore more quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."

Courage

"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."

Truth

"The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike."

Politics

"The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is."

Emotion

"America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres."

Philosophy

"Make yourself necessary to somebody."

Values

"No mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere."

Nature

"Life goes headlong. We chase some flying scheme, or we are hunted by some fear or command behind us. But if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause; our heat and hurry look foolish enough; now pause, now possession, is required, and the power to swell the moment from the resources of the heart. The moment is all, in all noble relations."

Inspirational

"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy."

Morality

"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."

Effort