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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-command is the...
Self-command is the main discipline.
Source: In
Science does not...
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
The history of...
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of...
Sooner or later...
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to...
Peace has its...
Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them.
Source: In Webster's...
Society always consists...
Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
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Self-trust is the...
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Source: Success.
-- Ralph Waldo...
The human body...
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken....
Sorrow makes us...
Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows...
People do not...
People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
Society is a...
Society is a hospital of incurables.
Source: In
Skepticism is unbelief...
Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.
Source: In
The key to...
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the...
Spartans, stoics, heroes,...
Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
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People say law...
People say law but they mean wealth.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....
Society is a...
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by...
Sleep lingers all...
Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the...
The key to...
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is...
Striving is perhaps...
Striving is perhaps the one and only true elixir, for while we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but...
People suffer all...
People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a...