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Common Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young…
- And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
- There is one mind common to all individual men
- If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I…
- And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for…
- Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I…
- 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…
- There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that…
- Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature.…
- The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.
- Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
- Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
- Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
- The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be…
- Common sense is as rare as genius.
- Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
- Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius
- Common sense is genius in its working clothes
More Common Quotes
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths… — Sri Aurobindo
- Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so… — Dan Aykroyd
- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
- I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean… — Stephen Baldwin