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Measure Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
- The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
- Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.
- Power is in nature the essential measure of right.
- We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in…
- When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the…
- What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but…
- Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.
- A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the…
- I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
- Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards…
- We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
- Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself.
More Measure Quotes
- When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. — Marcus Aurelius
- Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. — Paul Auster
- Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
- I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what… — Michele Bachmann
- Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing. — Abu Bakr
- People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more… — Albert Bandura
- Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs… — Saint Basil
- Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. — Jean Baudrillard
- To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. — Joseph Addison
- The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. — Jeremy Bentham
- It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by… — Alfred Adler
- An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a… — Wendell Berry