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Given Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that…
- In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.
- The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
- Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
- The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and…
- Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.
- Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality.…
- Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
- It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
- Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one…
- There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must…
- though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot…
- Do the thing and you will be given the power
- If I have renounced the searchof truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin,…
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