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Few Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man…
- Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
- A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his…
- We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred…
- My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can…
- A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us
- Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
- "Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture…
- Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
- A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
- There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an…
- We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world,…
- There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.
- To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.
- As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own…
- The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?
- The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.
- What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget…
- To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The…
- Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
- Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good…
- Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it
- We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought,…
- 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…
- So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius…
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- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
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- We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to… — Diane Ackerman
- 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