"The measure of mental health is the disposition……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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2,824 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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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of…
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as…
— John Adams
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
— Edmund Burke
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Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for…
— Giacomo Casanova
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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast:…
— Margaret Cavendish
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
— Oswald Chambers
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If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value…
— Chanakya
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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
— Thomas Aquinas
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You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.
— Emmet Fox
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
— Booker T. Washington
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There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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