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George Eliot: I've never any...

George Eliot: I've never any...

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with...

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George Eliot: Jealousy is never...

George Eliot: Jealousy is never...

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Their teacher had...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Their teacher had...

Their teacher had advised them not to read Tolstoy novels, because they were very long and would easily confuse the...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature becomes the...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature becomes the...

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Source: Speech, 1972.
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Jane Austen: You have delighted...

Jane Austen: You have delighted...

You have delighted us long enough.

Source: Pride and Prejudice, Ch. 18
-- Jane...

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Richard Bach: Jonathan is that...

Richard Bach: Jonathan is that...

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach...

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Richard Bach: Two things I...

Richard Bach: Two things I...

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else's list. I felt like...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: For believe me!...

Friedrich Nietzsche: For believe me!...

For believe me! --the secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A creative economy...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A creative economy...

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

Source: Aristocracy, 1876.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A man's action...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A man's action...

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: An empire is...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: An empire is...

An empire is an immense egotism.

Source: The Young American, lecture, 7 Feb 1844,...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: An eye can...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: An eye can...

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood,...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Conversation enriches the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Conversation enriches the...

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Great men are...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Great men are...

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Health is the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Health is the...

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Every hero becomes...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Every hero becomes...

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Source: Representative Men, Uses of Great Men,...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: I do not...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: I do not...

I do not hesitate to read. . . all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable --any...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: For every benefit...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: For every benefit...

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Higher than the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Higher than the...

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: If the red...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: If the red...

If the red slayer thinks he slays,
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I...

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