"Everything runs to excess; every good quality is……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed."
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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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Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.
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The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.
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For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
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Every good servant does not all commands.
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The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts,…
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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Whoever finds Jesus, finds a rich treasure, and a good above every good. He who loses Jesus loses much indeed,…
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The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.
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