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Mankind Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.
- The populace drags down the gods to their own level.
- A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
- Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the…
- Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting…
- Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while…
- Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.
- Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.
- Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why…
- And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never…
- The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is…
- Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is…
- It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement
- The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the…
- All mankind love a lover.
- We must be our own before we can be another's.
- The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
- We are wiser than we know.
- Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.
- Man is a piece of the universe made alive
- All mankind loves a lover.
- When it is darkest, men see the stars.
- Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine…
- All men in the abstract are just and good
- Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.
More Mankind Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies,… — Jane Austen
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their… — Douglas Adams
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the… — Henry Adams