"Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it."
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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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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to…
— Honore de Balzac
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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and…
— Joseph Addison
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Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
— Theodor Adorno
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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed…
— Sandra Bullock
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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human…
— Friedrich Engels
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No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it.…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a…
— Blaise Pascal
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Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their…
— Samuel Johnson
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Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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