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Views Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we…
- Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that…
- The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
- It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in…
- Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
- In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
- All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
- Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point…
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- Reality simply consists of different points of view. — Margaret Atwood
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