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Meet Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
- You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know…
- In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are…
- For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
- Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow…
- If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.
- Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.
- We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
- 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…
- If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
- It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or…
- Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
- Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in…
- Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest…
- Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or…
- When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the…
- People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.
- He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
- He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere
- An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he…
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- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
- Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today… — Marcus Aurelius
- Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is… — Richard Bach
- Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. — Richard Bach
- In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities… — Albert Bandura
- The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them. — Amelia Barr
- Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the… — Charles Baudelaire
- There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like… — Scott Adams
- I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to… — Glenn Beck
- When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity. — Martha Beck