"I read the other day some verses written……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius."
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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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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but…
— Francis Bacon
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He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too,…
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...The God I know is one that promotes peace and freedom. But I get great sustenance from my personal relationship.…
— George W. Bush
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Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties.…
— Charles Spurgeon
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It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on…
— Alexander Hamilton
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That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily…
— Adolf Hitler
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The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible…
— Diogenes
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A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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This whole process of education is to be religious, and not only religious, but Christian. And as Christianity is the…
— Charles Hodge
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Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public,…
— Milton Glaser
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If such love obtained in the world today as the Lord intended that it should, love of God and love…
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