"If you would not be known to do…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you would not be known to do anything, never do it."
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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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More Anything Never Quotes
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you…
— Winston Churchill
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The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... I'd like to pretend that I've never…
— Keith Haring
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Never run away from anything. Never!
— Winston Churchill
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She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.
— Tillie Olsen
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Make your mistakes with confidence. It is the only way you are going to learn anything. Never be afraid to…
— John Kessel
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Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills…
— Albert J. Nock
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I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something...
— Keith Haring
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I don't iron anything. Never have and never will.
— Steven Morrissey
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If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the…
— Thomas Merton
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You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and…
— Charles Dickens
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Since a good part of my life has been wasted dealing with fools just like them, it's not worry I…
— Ãlvaro Mutis
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