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Bad Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,…
- The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
- Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the…
- All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
- Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
- Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
- No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
- 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.
- Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and…
- The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.
- The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who…
- All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. In these sentences…
- It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.
- Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every…
- People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
- No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this;…
- Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
- Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
- Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the…
- There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is…
- Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of…
- The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
- Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and…
- Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong…
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- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. — Aristophanes
- Bad men are full of repentance. — Aristotle
- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'. — Frank Abagnale
- People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking and it… — David Arquette
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review,… — Isaac Asimov
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe