"There is an optical illusion about every person…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is an optical illusion about every person we meet."
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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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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to…
— Richard Bach
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In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability…
— Bob Barr
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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life…
— Annie Besant
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Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus…
— Annie Besant
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then…
— Pam Brown
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Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to…
— Benjamin Carson
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We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but…
— William Ellery Channing
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Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
— Deepak Chopra
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I believe that every person is born with talent.
— Maya Angelou
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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different…
— Octavio Paz
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