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Five Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
- 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…
- Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
- Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play…
- What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or…
- Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.
- After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.
- We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It…
- A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
- A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
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