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High Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we…
- I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.
- There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
- The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
- I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to…
- The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite…
- For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
- It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
- The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.
- [T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.…
- But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets…
- A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at…
- There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.
- And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for…
- No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
- All high beauty has a moral element in it.
- Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy…
- People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.
- Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to…
- Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.
- It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
- Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as…
- Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by…
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
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- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe
- I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good… — Diane Ackerman
- Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful. — Diane Ackerman
- Just advertising departments with legs and high heels. — Richard Avedon
- If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a… — David Axelrod
- I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters… — Dan Aykroyd
- My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to… — Jensen Ackles