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Quality Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
- The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
- Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.
- Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the…
- The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
- In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and…
- A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality
- We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.
- 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…
- Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
- Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality.…
- Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are…
- The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.
- This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
- It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
- There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
- The cordial quality of pear or plum rises as gladly in the single tree as in whole orchards resonant with bees
- The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to…
More Quality Quotes
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
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- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius
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