"Quotation confesses inferiority." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Quotation confesses inferiority."
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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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[Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get…
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The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory,…
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Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and…
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
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If thou wouldst be justified, acknowledge thine injustice. He that confesses his sin, begins his journey toward salvation. He that…
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We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than…
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The church used to confess its sin, now it confesses its right.
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It makes no difference whether they be Catholics, Orthodox, Copts or Protestants. They are Christians! Their blood is one and…
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The likeness of Your Church, O Lord, is that woman who went behind and touched the hem of Your garment,…
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Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who…
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He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
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