"A man builds a fine house; and now……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life."
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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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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but…
— Francis Bacon
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
— Abu Bakr
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In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and…
— Annie Besant
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I've got stress like anybody else, and it builds up during the day. Like, I'll be trying to do something…
— Lewis Black
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I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a…
— Gisele Bundchen
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Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds.
— Gisele Bundchen
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The biblical method of change begins in the heart of man with the Gospel. It transforms the mind of man…
— Kirk Cameron
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I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the…
— Jane Campion
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the…
— Hugo Chavez
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Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.
— Amy Chua
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The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.
— Madonna Ciccone
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