"Nature hates monopolies and exceptions." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nature hates monopolies and exceptions."
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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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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
— Jane Addams
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Science does not permit exceptions.
— Claude Bernard
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To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that…
— David Bowie
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Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money…
— Eli Broad
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There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting…
— Bill Bryson
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Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception…
— Julie Burchill
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The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove…
— Martin Van Buren
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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous…
— William S. Burroughs
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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
— Robert Burton
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My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of…
— Jimmy Carter
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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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