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Point Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
- The first point of courtesy must always be truth.
- The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak…
- Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.
- 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…
- No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.
- The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
- Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our…
- We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."
- The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in…
- All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
- 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…
- Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point…
- Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for…
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