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Bread Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his…
- Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
- He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread
- If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I…
- Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.
- Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why…
- There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be…
- The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.
- Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.
- The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
- These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in…
- Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.
- All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.
- The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination
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