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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Reality is a...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Reality is a...

Reality is a sliding door.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Pride ruined the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Pride ruined the...

Pride ruined the angels.

Source: The Sphinx.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The ship of...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The ship of...

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

Source: In...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: We aim above...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: We aim above...

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Source:
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25...

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MAJESTY, n. The...

MAJESTY, n. The...

MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand...

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MORAL, adj. Conforming...

MORAL, adj. Conforming...

MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general...

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ZIGZAG, v.t. To...

ZIGZAG, v.t. To...

ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden. (From zed, z, and...

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PITY, n. A...

PITY, n. A...

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

Source: The Devil's...

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PRELATE, n. A...

PRELATE, n. A...

PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A...

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QUOTATION, n. The...

QUOTATION, n. The...

QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously...

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RASH, adj. Insensible...

RASH, adj. Insensible...

RASH, adj. Insensible to the value of our advice.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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REPOSE, v.i. To...

REPOSE, v.i. To...

REPOSE, v.i. To cease from troubling.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
--...

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RICE-WATER, n. A...

RICE-WATER, n. A...

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and...

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RECRUIT, n. A...

RECRUIT, n. A...

RECRUIT, n. A person distinguishable from a civilian by his uniform and from a soldier by his...

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SYLPH, n. An...

SYLPH, n. An...

SYLPH, n. An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally...

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SUCCESS, n. The...

SUCCESS, n. The...

SUCCESS, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.

Source: The Devil's...

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PREDICAMENT, n. The...

PREDICAMENT, n. The...

PREDICAMENT, n. The wage of consistency.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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PLAGUE, n. In...

PLAGUE, n. In...

PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar...

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PRESIDENT, n. The...

PRESIDENT, n. The...

PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom -- and of whom only -- it is positively known that...

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POSITIVISM, n. A...

POSITIVISM, n. A...

POSITIVISM, n. A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its...

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