"The wise know that foolish legislation is a……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting."
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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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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
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I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In…
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty…
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Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here…
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that…
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Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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