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Sentence Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
- Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a…
- Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
- The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite...
- It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
- A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.
- Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
- The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who…
- There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we…
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- When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up. — Albert Brooks
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- If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence. — Charles Bukowski
- 'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence? — George Carlin
- I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a… — Thomas Carlyle
- Sentence first, verdict afterwards. — Lewis Carroll