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Serve Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself.…
- 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…
- If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent…
- The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if…
- The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
- Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to…
- The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.
- If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.
- Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from…
- Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore…
- A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet,…
- There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of…
- We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus,…
- Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
- 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…
- All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.
- Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
More Serve Quotes
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- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing… — Chinua Achebe
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion -… — Michele Bachmann
- Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. — Francis Bacon
- The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. — Honore de Balzac
- Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just… — Antonio Banderas
- No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. — Henry Adams
- Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions,… — Bernard Baruch