"The craft of the merchant is this bringing……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly."
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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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More Abounds Quotes
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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most…
— Teresa of Avila
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
— Mel Brooks
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
— Samuel Butler
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There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise,…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Beer is a wholesome liquor.....it abounds with nourishment
— Benjamin Rush
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The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we…
— John Owen
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Like taxes, radioactivity has long been with us and in increasing amounts; it is not to be hated and feared,…
— Unknown Author
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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
— Calvin Coolidge
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One of the greatest blessings we can offer to the world is the power of a Christ-centered home where the…
— Richard G. Scott
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O Virgin most holy, none abounds in the knowledge of God except through thee; none, O Mother of God, obtains…
— Pope Leo XIII
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Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money.
— Marsilio Ficino
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This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are…
— Richard V. Allen
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