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Short Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
- Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.
- Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of…
- Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
- A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
- Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.
- 'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not…
- When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am…
- Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions,…
- The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm.…
- Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
- Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter…
- Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
- Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate;…
- Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.
- Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
- Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy
- Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
- The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To…
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