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Ralph Waldo Emerson
My evening visitors,...
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.
No facts are...
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my...
One moment of...
One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of all...
Men wish to...
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
Life is not...
Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Source: In Correct...
Nations have lost...
Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tie does not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live...
No man thoroughly...
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
Source: In...
One of the...
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that...
Men's actions are...
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his...
Man was born...
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an...
Nature and books...
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
No power of...
No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma...
Only an inventor...
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
Most of the...
Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.
Men are respectable...
Men are respectable only as they respect.
Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...
Nature arms each...
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any...
Not he is...
Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
Our best thoughts...
Our best thoughts come from others.
Source:
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25...
Most of the...
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
Men lose their...
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...