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Excellent Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
- In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
- Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the…
- The reality is more excellent than the report.
- When I converse with a profound mind, or if at any time being alone I have good thoughts, I do not at once arrive at…
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- Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or… — Mortimer Adler
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- Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct. — Thomas Carlyle
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- If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results. — Earl Nightingale
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