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Ends Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
- To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
- Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every…
- A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
- Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.
- The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only…
- The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter,…
- Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to…
- The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite…
- Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other…
- Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
- We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which…
- 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…
- A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
- Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its…
- Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the…
- Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to…
- A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at…
- There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if…
- The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
- Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark…
- This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
- 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…
- All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has…
- Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
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- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did. — Neil Armstrong
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky