"A man must ride alternately on the horses……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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 would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence…
— Vern Huffman
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The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening…
— Agnes Repplier
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We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by…
— Friedrich Engels
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A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with…
— Marcel Proust
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We must come to the Bible with the purpose of self-exposure consciously in mind. I suspect not many people make…
— Larry Crabb
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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
— Benjamin Rush
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The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make…
— Joseph Addison
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Students generally have very little idea of the world they are entering into, and their teachers - like parents -…
— Marian Bantjes
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