"Let the stoics say what they please, we……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen."
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2,824 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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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty…
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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to…
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In every language you can imagine, I've had people say 'Appetite For Destruction' is the soundtrack to their lives. I…
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Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any…
— Eli Broad
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To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her…
— James Buchan
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
— Lord Byron
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My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working…
— Kim Cattrall
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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
— Emile M. Cioran
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It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom & passion.
— Steve Winwood
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The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
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I thought that conclusion that we leaped to right after the election, that has been disproven statistically so many times,…
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