"Genius Borrows nobly." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Genius Borrows nobly."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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 sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience.
— George Horne
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The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.
— William Arthur Ward
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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements…
— Henri Bergson
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The government doesn't save enough, it borrows too much and it doesn't invest enough in the next generation. It's like…
— Maya MacGuineas
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It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain
— Anna Garlin Spencer
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The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far…
— Matthew Continetti
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Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good…
— Bertrand Meyer
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Talent borrows, genius steals!
— Oscar Wilde
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Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It…
— Lee Ritenour
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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary…
— Will Durant
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently…
— Michel de Montaigne
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