"I wish to write such rhymes as shall……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom."
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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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Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't,…
— Lewis Carroll
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We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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It can be shown that an incorporeal and reasonable being has life in itself independently of the body... then it…
— Origen
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Man must not check reason by tradition, but contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Blindness to the aesthetic element in mathematics is widespread and can account for a feeling that mathematics is dry as…
— Philip J. Davis
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Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I dislike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that…
— Robert Motherwell
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Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The difference between you and her (whom I to you did once prefer) Is clear enough to settle: She like…
— Robert Graves
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The sun may set and rise: But we contrariwise Sleep after our short light One everlasting night.
— Sir Walter Raleigh
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