"The history of persecution is a history of……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand."
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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 Cheat Quotes
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one of 723 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Love is a game in which one always cheats.
— Honore de Balzac
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There's so many different ways to cheat. People think infidelity is the way to cheat. I think it's sometimes far…
— Sandra Bullock
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The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience,…
— John le Carre
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In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.
— Kim Cattrall
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I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a…
— Bernard Moitessier
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Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you cheat only yourself.
— Tony Lema
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You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she…
— Alexander Turney Stewart
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A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe…
— Paul G. Hoffman
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Vice President Spiro Agnew can not cheat on his score : because all you have to do is look back…
— Bob Hope
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Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards…
— Milt Gross
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Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don't whine; don't complain; don't make excuses.
— John Wooden
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