"Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that…
— Allan Bloom
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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been…
— David Brin
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is…
— Frederick Buechner
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
— Edmund Burke
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
— Samuel Butler
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Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.
— Cher
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims…
— Agatha Christie
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
— Winston Churchill
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Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment…
— George F. Kennan
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I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
— Camille Desmoulins
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Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free…
— Thornton Wilder
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