"Sanity is very rare; every man almost and……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 quotes on this site.
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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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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.
— Hans Asperger
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There'll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read 'em but all that's gonna matter is…
— Unknown Author
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My brother Dash hit me on the head with five textbooks in a gym bag.
— Tie Domi
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There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has…
— Brooks Atkinson
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For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The…
— Adrian Carton de Wiart
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That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
— Jesse Jackson
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It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any…
— Bergen Evans
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A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in…
— Eric Partridge
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Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.
— George Herbert
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One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is…
— Charles Dickens
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