"The people are to be taken in very…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The people are to be taken in very small doses."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 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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More Doses Quotes
This quote is filed under Doses Quotes,
one of 77 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us…
— Leslie Weatherhead
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.
— Lily Tomlin
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I'm sorry to see that again we are turning to the courts for decisions that concern ethics. I think theologians…
— Unknown Author
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Reality, for all intents and purposes, is just life - the real world, pure and uncut, shot straight to the…
— Corey Taylor
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You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism…
— Nikita Khrushchev
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Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.
— Paulo Coelho
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It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know…
— Mark Twain
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We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving…
— Nikita Khrushchev
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To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I…
— Annie Dillard
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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be…
— Russell Baker
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On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature…
— Unknown Author
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