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Course Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
- Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work,…
- The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock…
- We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in…
- Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
- Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
- If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course…
- The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening…
- The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the…
- If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your…
- Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
- The course of everything goes to teach us faith.
- Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
- Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality.…
- The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench…
- Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always…
- When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the…
- Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries…
- Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to…
- To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage
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