"A man is a golden impossibility. The line……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
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If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can;…
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