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Equal Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a…
- He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former…
- Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
- The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
- Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed…
- In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the…
- We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer…
- A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence…
- Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and…
- My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be…
- A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm…
- The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal…
- Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective.
More Equal Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. — Jane Austen
- I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to… — David Bailey
- From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses… — Mikhail Bakunin
- True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white… — Honore de Balzac
- The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal… — Honore de Balzac
- His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall. — James M. Barrie