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Real Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
- Real action is in silent moments.
- In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
- Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question…
- When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit;…
- Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
- I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the…
- I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human…
- Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
- Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make…
- The influence of the senses have in men overpowered the thought to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look…
- God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.
- The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the…
- We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It…
- The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
- 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…
- A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence…
- The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy…
- Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps…
- When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
- There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides…
- ...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…
- The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
- Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
- 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…
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- We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. — Bashar al-Assad
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- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- Crying wolf is a real danger. — David Attenborough
- I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that. — David Attenborough
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