"Let him be great, and love shall follow……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in…
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by…
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If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of…
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It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than…
— Remy de Gourmont
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The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may…
— Richard Owen
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Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all…
— Robert Greene
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For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.
— Louis Agassiz
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We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that…
— Oswald Chambers
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In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.
— Guillaume Canet
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This new force, which was unknown until now, is common to organic and inorganic nature. I do not believe that…
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