"There is nothing capricious in nature and the……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it."
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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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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we…
— Richard Dawkins
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
— William Hazlitt
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious…
— Edward Gibbon
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Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of…
— Barbara Tuchman
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I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
— John Cheever
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Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his…
— Gerald Heaney
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Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how…
— Walter Bagehot
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Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an…
— William Hurt
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The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.
— Christopher Hitchens
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Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way…
— Nick Harkaway
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Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid,…
— Richard Bach
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