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Kind Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but…
- Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.
- Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
- There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted…
- The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look…
- So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and . . .…
- 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…
- All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will…
- Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
- Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
- Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am…
- The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the…
- Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all…
- The prehuman creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind.... Humanization was not a…
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- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this… — Rowan Atkinson
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
- On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France… — John James Audubon
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine
- You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle! — Dan Aykroyd