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Things Happen For A Reason Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.
- We go to Europe to be Americanized.
- To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
- The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
- Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
- It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
- You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of his…
- Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
- Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?
- And DANTE searched the triple spheres, Moulding nature at his will, So shaped, so colored, swift or still, And, sculptor-like, his large design Etched on…
- No Life can pompless pass away The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here
- Manners have been somewhatcynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who…
- The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to…
- The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.
- The sexton, tolling his bell at noon, Deems not that great Napoleon Stops his horse, and lists withdelight, Whilst his files sweep round yon Alpine…
- Homoeopathy is insignificant as an art of healing, but of great value as criticism on thehygeia or medical practice of the time. Share
- What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sunit is a sacred emblem from…
- Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all…
- That work is ever more pleasant to the imagination which is not now required. How wistfully, when we have promised to attend the working committee,…
- In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of…
- Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the…
- It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.
- We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;and thatis the theory of…
- There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Respect for right conduct is felt by every body. — Jane Austen
- The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you… — Franklin P. Adams
- Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest. — Charles Baudelaire
- Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine. — Charles Baudelaire
- In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing,… — Charles Baudelaire
- A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. — Joseph Addison
- I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. — Hilaire Belloc
- The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. — Jeremy Bentham
- It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow.… — Josh Billings
- And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter… — Aeschylus
- The army is the true nobility of our country. — Napoleon Bonaparte