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Less Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The less government we have the better.
- Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is…
- If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of…
- 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…
- I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything…
- Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.
- My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough…
- The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
- The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.
- Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.
- Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of…
- The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
- Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point…
- Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a…
- The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself in images. A…
- Speak less. Say more. whaywardj
- The art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right…
- We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;and thatis the theory of…
- Sin seen from the thought, is a diminution or less: seen from the conscience or will, itis pravity or bad. The intellectnames it shade, absence…
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- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is… — 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
- There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. — Jane Austen
- If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. — Jane Austen