"Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success."
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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 Abdication Quotes
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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the…
— John Stuart Mill
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Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives…
— Daniel Ellsberg
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"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one…
— Ayn Rand
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I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how…
— Geoffrey Rush
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Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
— Charles M. Blow
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Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not…
— Olusegun Obasanjo
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Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.
— Erica Jong
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The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather…
— Carl Bernstein
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Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
— Simone Weil
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Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.
— R. D. Laing
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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic…
— Ralph Nader
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