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True Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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 wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
- If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms,…
- The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
- The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are…
- The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
- If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man…
- Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.
- Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law,…
- Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself…
- I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in…
- We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them
- The religions we call false were once true.
- True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.
- The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is…
- The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us…
- Isolation must precede true society.
- Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. . Alone in all…
- The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.
- There is no true orator who is not a hero.
- Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty…
- The true ship is the ship builder.
- The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a…
- Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.
- Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
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- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
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- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
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