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Ralph Waldo Emerson
We learn geology...
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
What is the...
What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.
Source: In
When a resolute...
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often...
Who can. ....
Who can. . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of...
Whatever you do,...
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are...
We walk alone...
We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
What is the...
What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the...
When the eyes...
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the...
Who shall set...
Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
Source: The Conduct of...
When I was...
When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and...
What is a...
What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth...
Whatever games are...
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty...
Where there is...
Where there is no vision a people perish.
Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...
Whoso would be...
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Source: Essays,...
When a whole...
When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and...
What lies behind...
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within...
Wisdom is like...
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain...
Who shall forbid...
Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an...
Wilt thou seal...
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
When we quarrel,...
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless!
Source: In Correct Quotes for...