"The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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More Bystanders Quotes
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The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of…
— James Wolfensohn
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. . . [we] read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our own conduct.
— William James
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In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor…
— Thomas Paine
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The proponents of UFOs offer up impressive quantities of principally eyewitness data, which although largely subjective and circumstantial in nature,…
— Peter Davenport
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power…
— Dorothea Lange
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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do…
— Judith Lewis Herman
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Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character…
— Les Standiford
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Are gun rights advocates arguing that roving gangs...shooting innocent bystanders constitutes a 'well-regulated militia'?
— Bill Hicks
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There are no bystanders in a dharmayudh - it is a holy war.
— Amish Tripathi
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Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.
— Seth Godin
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All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to…
— Francis Galton
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