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He Cannot Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can…
- But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that…
- He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
- 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…
- The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The…
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- Friends and brothers, The Almighty created us Indians. We are as he made us. The Almighty has given to the whites a… — Standing Bear
- If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. — Henry Ward Beecher
- In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. — Aeschylus
- Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He… — David Bowie
- Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that… — Kirk Cameron
- The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself… — Albert Camus
- The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. — Thomas Carlyle
- Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his… — Thomas Carlyle
- Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth. — Nicolas Chamfort
- A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills… — James Allen
- If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his… — Neal A. Maxwell
- The Negro wants to be everything but himself... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself… — Elijah Muhammad