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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Men over forty...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Men over forty...

Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

Source: Lectures...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Money is of...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Money is of...

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Preaching is the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Preaching is the...

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Money often costs...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Money often costs...

Money often costs too much.

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

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: My chief want...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: My chief want...

My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.

Source: In...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature has made...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature has made...

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Outside, among your...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Outside, among your...

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do, but...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Talent alone cannot...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Talent alone cannot...

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: No matter how...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: No matter how...

No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.

Source: In The...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: People wish to...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: People wish to...

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for...

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Abraham Lincoln: We know nothing...

Abraham Lincoln: We know nothing...

We know nothing of what will happen in the future, but by the analogy of experience.

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Winston Churchill: I can think...

Winston Churchill: I can think...

I can think of no better step to signalize the inauguration of the National Health service than that a person who so...

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Winston Churchill: I have waited...

Winston Churchill: I have waited...

I have waited fifty years to see the Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.

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Winston Churchill: I have never...

Winston Churchill: I have never...

I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a...

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Winston Churchill: I don't see...

Winston Churchill: I don't see...

I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit to me.

Source: When asked...

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Abraham Lincoln: Marriage is neither...

Abraham Lincoln: Marriage is neither...

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory.

Source: In Webster's...

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Abraham Lincoln: I can see...

Abraham Lincoln: I can see...

I can see how a man can look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into...

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Abraham Lincoln: My dream is...

Abraham Lincoln: My dream is...

My dream is of a place and time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Claspt hands and...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Claspt hands and...

Claspt hands and that petitionary grace
Of sweet seventeen subdued me ere she spoke.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Dear as remembered...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Dear as remembered...

Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd
On lips that are for others:...

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