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Rest Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light…
- Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when…
- Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms…
- Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel…
- 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 miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
- I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that…
- For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy…
- He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely…
- A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and…
More Rest Quotes
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I've committed to surfing the rest of my life. — Lance Armstrong
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen
- Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the… — Edward Bach
- The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not… — Gaston Bachelard
- Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be… — Francis Bacon
- Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted… — Erykah Badu
- The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which… — Walter Bagehot
- Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. — Pearl Bailey
- Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of… — Russell Baker