"Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal."

— 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…
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
A little praise goes a great ways.

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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — Jane Austen
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as… — Saint Basil
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction. — Henry Ward Beecher
Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his… — David Bowie
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. — Sitting Bull
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise. — Leo Buscaglia
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking… — Raymond Chandler
The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the… — Hugo Chavez
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people. — John Cleese
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. — Seneca the Younger
It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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