"The eye is easily frightened." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The eye is easily frightened."
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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…
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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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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from…
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
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Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for,…
— Thomas Arnold
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Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
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I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.
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I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to…
— Margaret Atwood
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you…
— Francis Bacon
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I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a…
— Eric Bana
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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the…
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— Tyra Banks
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Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily.
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