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I Cannot Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
- I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
- Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
- I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not…
- I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall…
- 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…
- What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
- Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.
- Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.
- I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side…
- Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel…
- I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
- I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
- It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this,…
- I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
- Your actions speak so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
More I Cannot Quotes
- The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to… — Jane Austen
- I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. — Jane Austen
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- I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to… — Roger Nash Baldwin
- I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip… — Alan Ball
- I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand. — Brigitte Bardot
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