"A complete man should need no auxiliaries to……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 quotes on this site.
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional,…
— Marcel Proust
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have…
— Lord Acton
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Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with.
— Harold Rosenberg
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Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.
— Charles Dickens
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Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
— George Eliot
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