"Men lose their tempers in defending their taste." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Men lose their tempers in defending their taste."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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 Defending Quotes
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one of 305 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and…
— Bashar al-Assad
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Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular…
— Charles Babbage
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
— Samuel Adams
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance…
— Gary Bauer
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support…
— Judy Biggert
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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but…
— William Blake
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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
— Sitting Bull
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This way of life is worth defending.
— George W. Bush
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I will never relent in defending America - whatever it takes.
— George W. Bush
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Passivity is the same as defending injustice.
— Deepak Chopra
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Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for…
— Benjamin Franklin
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