"Every calamity is a spur and a valuable…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 quotes on this site.
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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 high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
— Aristotle
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to…
— Aeschylus
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the…
— William Whately
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Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be…
— Sun Tzu
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If you will take it into your mind to be sincere in throwing away your life for your master, you…
— Torii Mototada
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Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which…
— Sun Tzu
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