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Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the dull...
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with...
To believe your...
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is...
We do what...
We do what we can, and then make up a theory to prove our performance the best.
We acquire the...
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...
To be great...
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Source: Essays, Self-Reliance (First Series),...
Today is a...
Today is a king in disguise.
Source: In
To different minds,...
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
Source: From Ashleys...
We estimate the...
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
We all live...
We all live amid surfaces, and the true art is to skate well on them.
Source: In...
Trust men, and...
Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves...
Traveling is a...
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of...
To fill the...
To fill the hour -- that is happiness.
Source: In
We must hold...
We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer...
We are a...
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Trust the instinct...
Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason . . .
Source: In...
Two man talk...
Two man talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching...
To think is...
To think is to act.
Source: Essays, Spiritual Laws (First Series), 1841.
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We never touch...
We never touch but at points.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...
We ascribe beauty...
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands...
We do not...
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
Source: Society...