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Quite Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him.…
- We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
- Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
- Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to…
- The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite…
- Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal…
- It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to…
- It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to…
- Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from…
- 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…
- The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.
- 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…
- In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.
- ...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes…
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