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Known Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes,…
- A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has…
- Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his…
- Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
- Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
- When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the…
- If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.
- A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.
- Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
- Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become…
- In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
- A man is known by the books he reads.
- Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
- When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and…
- Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder willspeak out of stone walls.
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- The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God is best known in not knowing him. — Saint Augustine
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
- It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do… — Douglas Adams
- I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way… — Tallulah Bankhead
- I can tell you that I'd rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I've known. — Bob Barker
- On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard
- Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking. — Bernard Baruch
- Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been… — Bernard Baruch