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My Own Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better…
- I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it…
- I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go…
- My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.
- It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
- Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except…
- All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
- When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I…
- I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all…
- A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm…
More My Own Quotes
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. — Rodney Atkins
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. — Diane Ackerman
- If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though. — Kevin Bacon
- I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much… — Amy Adams
- I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. — Mikhail Bakunin
- I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene. — Christian Bale