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Among Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.
- Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
- He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.
- Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.
- More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn…
- Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better…
- There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads…
- Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
- Never utter the truism but live it among men.
- In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the…
- A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much…
- Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty…
- Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.
- Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect…
- Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be…
- Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.
- One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars
- There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people that did not…
- Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means…
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- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
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