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His Own Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man…
- I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.
- Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial…
- The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the…
- Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
- No man can have society upon his own terms.
- Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.
- He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves
- The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at…
- Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own…
- The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm.…
- Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has…
- It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.
- The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his…
- As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own…
- It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed…
- Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are…
- Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.
- A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay…
- The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.
- As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.
- The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
- As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
- Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
- The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It…
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- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as… — Teresa of Avila
- Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility… — Irving Babbitt
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann
- A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. — Francis Bacon
- An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he… — Walter Bagehot
- He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. — Abu Bakr