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Want Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
- Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
- A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his…
- Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
- Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to…
- Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to…
- If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.
- And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.
- 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…
- Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate…
- The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith
- There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different;…
- 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…
- Beware of what you want-for you will get it.
- We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with…
- The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which…
- It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement
- Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton,…
- A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.
- Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
- Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
- No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock…
- Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
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