"The ornament of a house is the friends…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."
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2,824 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,824 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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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds…
— Mary Astell
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The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are…
— Teresa of Avila
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In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from…
— Charles Babbage
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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
— Lord Chesterfield
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
— Lord Chesterfield
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The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and…
— Peter Abelard
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Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a…
— Sidney Altman
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In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of…
— John E. Hines
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is…
— Sun Tzu
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Today, people are talking about many things: the danger of war and frequent clashes, water and air pollution, hunger, the…
— Fethullah Gulen
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