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Once Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.
- The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
- Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
- When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.
- 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…
- The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never…
- Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
- Every man is eloquent once in his life.
- Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless…
- Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.
- Every reform was once a private opinion.
- In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the…
- The religions we call false were once true.
- By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard…
- There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
- Nature tells every secret once.
- There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that…
- The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.
- Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
- Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?
- It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled…
- It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our…
- The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you…
- What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a…
- If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins