"Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen."
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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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Compassion is an alternate perception
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Everything we did was a first: first bath, first walk, first drive in the car. It was like we walked…
— Soleil Moon Frye
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For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it…
— Nelson Goodman
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Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the…
— George Eliot
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Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of…
— Jimmy Webb
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With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he…
— Jorma Kaukonen
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I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and…
— James Taylor
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The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.
— Jane Fonda
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An alternate explanation is not a refutation.
— Greg Koukl
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I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate…
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
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Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The…
— Howard Zinn
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Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the…
— Natalie Zemon Davis
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