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Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,968 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about…
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Society asks of most men more than sheer intellect ability-it demands also moral hardiness, self-discipline, a competitive spirit and other qualities that…
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"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From…
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things…
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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road, I guess that's what they call character, I guess that's…
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Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit,…
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