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Might Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.
- Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds…
- Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to…
- Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
- Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.
- Great men exist that there might be greater men.
- Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore…
- What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with…
- Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in…
- Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will…
- We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim…
- A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.
- In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of…
- If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious…
- But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him…
- Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul…
- There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
More Might Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- 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
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. — Francis of Assisi
- People are smarter than you might think. — John Astin
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story… — Chinua Achebe
- Never pray for justice, because you might get some. — Margaret Atwood
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine