"Our chief want in life is somebody who……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can."
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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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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
— Hannah Arendt
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the…
— Gaston Bachelard
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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that…
— J. G. Ballard
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
— Joseph Addison
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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
— Alfred Adler
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the…
— Joe Biden
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Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
— Hugh Blair
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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the…
— William Blake
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The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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