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Higher Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.
- A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events;…
- Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he…
- The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
- Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.
- Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.
- No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.
- Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn…
- In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more…
- Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
- If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest…
- Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think
- I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence and…
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