"This valley is the only place that comes……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds 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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There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come.…
— Rachel Maddow
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The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could…
— Mark Twain
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Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.
— Richard Crashaw
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about; and those who preach faith and…
— Bill Maher
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Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their…
— William Shakespeare
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You can never underestimate the prince, I'm always there. The prince will never die. I ain't bragging, but I ain't…
— Unknown Author
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I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to…
— Adam Brody
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I never brag, how real i keep it, cause thats the best secret...
— Nas
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I'm not a guy that's going to brag or feel like I'm better than the group.
— Kevin Durant
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