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Force Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
- Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
- 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,…
- Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and…
- Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means
- There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads…
- Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
- Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
- Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
- The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.
- We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own…
- We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.
- 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,…
- He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.
- But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.
- Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore…
- A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.
- The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss…
- That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable…
- It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
- A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you…
- Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
- Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
- Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent…
- As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous…
More Force Quotes
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- Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of… — Saint Augustine
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- We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated… — Ibrahim Babangida
- The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort,… — Charles Babbage
- Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. — Lord Acton
- The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that… — Lord Acton
- I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large -… — Julianna Baggott
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