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Effect Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is…
- Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the…
- Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so…
- In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not…
- So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their…
- Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.
- Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
- Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the…
- The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
- 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…
- 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…
- Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What…
- What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with…
- Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.
- So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou…
- You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of…
- The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the…
- Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
- Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point…
- Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
- Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means…
More Effect Quotes
- The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by… — Charles Babbage
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times.… — Kevin Bacon
- I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good… — Alan Ball
- The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render… — Hosea Ballou
- People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more… — Albert Bandura
- The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one… — John Banville
- Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead… — Gerry Adams
- The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing… — Henry Adams
- Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. — Henry Adams
- Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch… — Roseanne Barr
- The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and… — John Adams