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Rule Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may…
- Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
- A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
- Thoughts rule the world.
- If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.
- It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring…
- Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.
- Harder still it has proved to rule the dragon Money... A whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief they…
- Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
- A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you…
- It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled…
- None shall rule but the humble,And none but Toil shall have.
- Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
- In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
- What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the…
- Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.
- Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
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