"The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good."
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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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God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
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Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you…
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Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going…
— Sonny Bono
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Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know…
— Ray Bradbury
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed…
— James Buchan
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
— Edmund Burke
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My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love 'em! I never have. Babies scare me more…
— Margaret Cho
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Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
— Thomas Tusser
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Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear…
— William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
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It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to…
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