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Certain Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
- Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
- Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.
- This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are…
- You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you.…
- The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
- The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing…
- There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
- If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe…
- Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions,…
- The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
- A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
- The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -…
- We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human…
- It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not…
- God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing…
- A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is…
- The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which…
- There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
- The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is…
- That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable…
- The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.
- The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with…
- Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.
- Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.
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