"Men have looked away from themselves and at……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 quotes on this site.
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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 Assault Quotes
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder…
— Conrad Black
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Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an…
— Noam Chomsky
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How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among…
— Harry J. Anslinger
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Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still…
— Alistair Cooke
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Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the…
— Hugh Prather
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Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of…
— Colin Powell
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Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great…
— Gerhard Richter
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Whilst accidents and assaults injure and kill people quickly and spectacularly, bullying and consequent prolonged negative stress injure and kill…
— Tim Field
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Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not…
— Ronald Reagan
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