"If you put a chain around the neck……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 quotes on this site.
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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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More Chain Quotes
This quote is filed under Chain Quotes,
one of 726 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
— John Berger
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us…
— Annie Besant
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At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life…
— Annie Besant
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I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost…
— Jello Biafra
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert…
— Orlando Bloom
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks…
— Wade Boggs
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When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of…
— Jo Brand
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
— Robert Burton
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I always had boyfriends, but I never imagined a proposal or a wedding. To me, that was like having a…
— Sandra Bullock
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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books…
— Anthony Burgess
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