"Had I but written as many odes in……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me."
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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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— Geraldine Brooks
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The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders…
— Graydon Carter
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And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I…
— Wilt Chamberlain
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I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn…
— Muhammad Ali
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Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well.
— Robert Goulet
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It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fight it out.
— Robert Goulet
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...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and…
— Toby Lester
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Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.
— Robert Duvall
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The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat…
— Howard Cosell
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...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Ali.
— Chuck Wepner
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