Two man talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. -Ralph Wa...
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RAINN WILSON
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for
literature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
JENNIFER L. SCOTT
The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted
until within this century.
-...
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should
be an inventor.
- Ralph Wald...
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I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If y...
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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what
books he read.
- Ralph Wald...
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KAREN DUFFY
Language is a city to the building of which every human being
brought a stone.
- Ralph Waldo ...
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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. -Ralph Waldo Emerso...
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COLIN SHAHA
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; t...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything right...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON: I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
"When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanne...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
To believe your own thought, to believe that that what is true for you in your private heart is true...
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
When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor
replies, "Yet he was more original th...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
He told me that when (Ralph Waldo) Emerson came to California, (Muir) tried to get him to come out a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead drunk in the street, carried to the duke's hous...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man....
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the c...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable f...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON There was something else amusing about the house: the irony that the most important battle of the Am...
JOSH BARKAN
Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years...
PAUL HAWKEN
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.
DON DELILLO We may also take in some financial investors, but the number may be around two to three.
LIU WEIZHI
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
BEN JONSON
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise
man speaks.
BEN JONSON
Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak
EPICTETUS
If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
THOMAS CARLYLE
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
In a three-man booth -- and it's not just our three-man booth, it's any three-man booth -- the game ...
TROY AIKMAN The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - a...
KAREN HORNEY Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation-and for me the most important part is listening to G...
FRANK C. LAUBACH
Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say,
Two may keep counsel, putting one away?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk,...
BEN JOHNSON
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, ...
HEINRICH HEINE
Mr. Emerson visited Thoreau at the jail, and the meeting between the two philosophers must have been...
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Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The three words women most want to hear from a man are, "You lost weight"
LORI GOTTLIEB
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The rules allow companies to pick a random pool of applicants by searching the job boards for 'most ...
GERRY CRISPIN Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take bet...
LANDON DONOVAN But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement i...
HJALMAR SCHACHT But most of the things has to be, as far as staying aggressive in your initial offense, not searchin...
FLIP SAUNDERS We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
DIOGENES LAëRTIUS One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man....
VICTOR LAVALLE
Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same ti...
GINGER ROGERS We dominated the game for the most part, but for two or three minutes, we allowed them to get back i...
BILL BESTWICK Searching represents the achievement of the goal of searching.
Finding represents the achieveme...
ALAN COHEN I did and do believe, after all that I've seen and done, that if you project yourself into the mass ...
DANIEL MENDELSOHN
The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the...
C. JOYBELL C.
I wish I could drink like a lady / I can take one or two at the most / Three and I'm under the table...
DOROTHY PARKER
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
WILL ROGERS I was trying to talk reason, to try and have a two-way conversation. She considered an adoption but ...
MATT DUBAY
Playing football and rugby is the Samoan sport. It's part of the conversation at church. It'...
JUNIOR SEAU Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is ...
TOM BLAIR Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is ...
TOM BLAIR
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
One had a lovely face, and two or three had charm, but charm and face were in vain. Because the moun...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS If a man doesn't acknowledge your sincere qualities, he doesn't deserve any part of you.-MizLyrics-
TAWANA BEECHAM
Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS The reason we have two ears and only one mouth, is that we may hear more and speak less.
ZENO
A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
THOMAS BEECHAM
It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. •Evander Holyfield The les...
EVANDER HOLYFIELD There are three impossibilities in life: God cannot lie, God cannot change and finally, I cannot be ...
IKECHUKWU IZUAKOR
If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI
Sooner or later, Zimmerman's going to start three or four ballgames in a row, and Short may start tw...
FRANK ROBINSON I thought the purchasing manager was a part of that give and take deal. Now, we've got another thing...
GARY MEYER
And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you m...
JOHN GREEN
A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the cr...
TAYLOR KITSCH
May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember ...
THOMAS S. MONSON
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? Wh...
FRANK HERBERT I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a s...
PETER WRIGHT
Man and woman are the two wheels of society. If either one becomes defective, the society cannot mak...
ABHIJIT NASKAR
One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at...
JANE AUSTEN
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversa...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM
Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important th...
HODA KOTB You could hear a pin drop. He didn't talk long, three, four minutes, and that was it. But he said so...
BRANDON STOKLEY
Any man who would take money two ways would take it three ways just as quickly.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Tor...
DAVID NOVAK
The only class that I was having a hard time with was my art elective. I couldn’t draw worth a dam...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
The undercurrent of my every thought:
To seek you, find you, have you for my own.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
One wife is too much for most husbands to hear, / But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.
JOHN GAY
They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up...
JEROME K. JEROME
A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and tal...
PATRICK KAVANAGH
The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS
I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whol...
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who...
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All mankind love a lover.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sen...
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Life is our dictionary.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sen...
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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These ...
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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What you are comes to you.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule t...
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Hitch your wagon to a star.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited wit...
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Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass undergr...
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The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze
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Fear always springs from ignorance
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, sh...
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Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
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Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of chil...
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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, cruc...
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If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs or knives, c...
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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and
there abide, the huge world will ...
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Born for success, he seemed
With grace to win, with heart to hold,
With shining gifts that too...
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One thing is forever good;
That one thing is Success.
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The more reason, the less government.
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If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what
books he read.
- Ralph Wald...
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Obedience alone gives the right to command.
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So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting --...
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriat...
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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You cannot see the mountain near
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The only reward of virtue is virtue.
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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must ...
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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one
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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
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There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same
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The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on...
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God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never h...
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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as ...
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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She wa...
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A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
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There is no knowledge that is not power.
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There is no knowledge that is not power
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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding he...
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Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a mi...
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Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.
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Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air...
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.
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Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
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Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large
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Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add...
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and prese...
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The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which command...
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
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Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.
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Is not every man sometimes a radical in politics? Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous...
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Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere...
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Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its e...
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Mr. Emerson visited Thoreau at the jail, and the meeting between the two philosophers must have been...
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Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast ...
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What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. W...
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Republics abound in young civilians who believe that the laws make the city, that grave modification...
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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
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Skill to do comes of doing
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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man ...
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The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English...
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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and th...
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim ...
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The ancestor of every action is thought.
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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
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Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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Far or forgot to me is near;
Shadow and sunlight are the same;
The vanished gods to me appear;...
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Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for ...
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In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain ...
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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and
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The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me,
correspondent to my flowing unto hi...
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There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not ...
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birt...
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Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all ...
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The faith that stand on authority is not faith.
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him e...
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The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companions...
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Friendship demands the ability to do without it.
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Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
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Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
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Language is fossil poetry.
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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it
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I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son.
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When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something
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All life is an experiment.
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him ev...
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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at las...
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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; t...
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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; t...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or ...
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By nature all people are alike, but by education become different
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The day are ever divine as to the first Aryans. They are of the
least pretension, and of the great...
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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never...
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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do st...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Today is a king in disguise.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought s...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Wherever there is power there is age.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any ot...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
An empire is an immense egotism.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have b...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
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