"There is something servile in the habit of……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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