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Condition Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.
- Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.
- The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
- Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.
- Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
- Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains…
- Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever…
- I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also…
- The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his…
- Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or…
- To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do…
- Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
- I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.
- To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and…
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- It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does… — Saint Basil
- The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille
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