"If you would rule the world quietly, you……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused."
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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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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree…
— Honore de Balzac
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience,…
— Giacomo Casanova
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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they…
— Leonard Cohen
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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this…
— H.G. Wells
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.
— Charles Edward Montague
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To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse…
— Aubrey Beardsley
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Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such…
— Unknown Author
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The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be…
— Larry Niven
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...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one…
— Arthur Rubinstein
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