"Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread."
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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 Bread Quotes
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
— Paul Auster
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
— Francis Bacon
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on…
— James A. Baldwin
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
— James A. Baldwin
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I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.
— Tyra Banks
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I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken,…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
— Milton Berle
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
— Georges Bernanos
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
— Ambrose Bierce
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