"Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table."
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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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But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry…
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— John Allen Paulos
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The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices,…
— Joseph Lovering
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— Christian Friedrich Schonbein
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[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and…
— Samuel Crompton
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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now;…
— John Fowles
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