"A cynic can chill and dishearten with a…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word."
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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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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
— Francis of Assisi
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I've learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit.…
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If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can't control what they stare at, but…
— Tom Brady
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I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the…
— Kobe Bryant
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer…
— Thomas Carlyle
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One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite…
— David O. McKay
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Kingston is so chill. He goes with me everywhere. He's been to every studio in L.A., New York, London. He…
— Gwen Stefani
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A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a…
— Stephen Fry
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For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words…
— Unknown Author
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Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred…
— Kelly Miller
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad…
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their…
— William Shakespeare
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