"Beware of what you want-for you will get…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Beware of what you want-for you will get it."

— 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…
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
A little praise goes a great ways.

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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. — Francis Bacon
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you… — Francis Bacon
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. — Charles Baudelaire
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child. — Henry Ward Beecher
Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. — Aesop
Beware of geeks bearing formulas. — Warren Buffett
Beware of the person of one book. — Thomas Aquinas
Whoever coined the term "Buyer Beware" was probably bleeding from the asshole. — George Carlin
Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust. — Desmond Tutu
Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing. — Aesop
There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part… — Victor Hugo

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