"Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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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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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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Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.
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