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Hundred Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.
- Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.
- We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred…
- We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in…
- It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to…
- He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.…
- The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself…
- Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized…
- There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the…
- Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?
- Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.
- Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a…
- Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for…
- Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
- A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can…
- There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great…
More Hundred Quotes
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you. — George Matthew Adams
- The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred… — Henry Adams
- Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her. — Jack Adams
- A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her. — Max Beerbohm
- It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child… — Carol Bellamy
- There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural… — Alfred Adler
- The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But… — Buffalo Bill
- I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else. — Josh Billings
- I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour. — Andre Agassi
- One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer