"Let a man then know his worth and……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
A little praise goes a great ways.

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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky. — Paul Auster
I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a… — Paul Auster
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for… — Neil Armstrong
I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political… — Margaret Atwood
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the… — Saint Augustine
I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever… — Pearl Bailey
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general,… — Mikhail Bakunin
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. — Honore de Balzac
My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my… — Tyra Banks
If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune. — Count Basie
Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself… — Saint Basil
Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always… — Jane Addams

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