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Their Own Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what…
- The populace drags down the gods to their own level.
- The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical…
- I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young…
- Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.
- We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own…
- Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
- Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of…
- The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.
- Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect…
- Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and,…
- I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their…
- In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study…
- Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which…
More Their Own Quotes
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet. — Sebastian Bach
- People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. — Michele Bachmann
- What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put… — Erykah Badu