"A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
— Abigail Adams
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Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
— Emile M. Cioran
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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but…
— Thomas Jefferson
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How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred…
— Charles Perrault
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Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.
— Propertius
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Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the…
— Khalil Gibran
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