"For nonconformity the world will whip you with……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure."
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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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The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away…
— Tony Campolo
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What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why…
— Hester Lynch Piozzi
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The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it…
— Martin Luther
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Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.
— Victor LaValle
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By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms…
— Pascal Bruckner
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O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They…
— Abdul-Qadir Gilani
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Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.
— Unknown Author
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Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure
— Fanny Burney
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In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to…
— Anne Boleyn
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Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.
— Fanny Burney
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It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am…
— Abraham Lincoln
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