"Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry."
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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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I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for…
— Vernon Howard
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The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.
— William Greider
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People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals…
— L. Neil Smith
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Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions…
— Gough Whitlam
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By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.
— Sigmund Freud
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...The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to…
— Noel Ignatiev
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He [Jesus] fought and conquered. On the one hand, he was man who struggled for his fathers and through his…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read…
— George Gillespie
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Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou…
— Ebenezer Elliott
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[The courts and the media elite] are abolishing America, they are deconstructing our country ... they have dethroned our God.
— Pat Buchanan
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