"There is a genius of a nation, which……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society."
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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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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive…
— Lionel Trilling
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by…
— Elbert Hubbard
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It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The Spirit of Enterprise, which characterizes the commercial part of America, has left no occasion of displaying itself unimproved. It…
— Alexander Hamilton
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A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life,…
— Stephen Greenblatt
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The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to…
— Andrea Dworkin
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A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.
— Max De Pree
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The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediah’s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality in OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist…
— David Limbaugh
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The dynamism and freedom that characterizes the West is the product of Christianity's reforming itself and moving forward culturally. The…
— Charles Colson
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