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Set Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
- Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the…
- We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
- The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look…
- People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.
- Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil…
- The highest Beauty should be plain set.
- But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.
- The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.
- Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.
- If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents,…
- Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes…
- To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do…
- Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the…
- ...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…
- Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within
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