"Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself."
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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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Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.
— Richard Armour
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
— William Hazlitt
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There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason...Reason must be…
— Martin Luther
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A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The NeXT purchase is too little too late. The Apple of the past was an innovative company that used software…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no…
— Peter Kropotkin
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Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such…
— Chuck Klosterman
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To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be…
— Aleister Crowley
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