"Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets,……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men."
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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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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of…
— Ansel Adams
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We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our…
— Les Brown
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the…
— Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
— Heraclitus
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In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
— Clement Attlee
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Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them…
— William Osler
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Although we think of them as extraordinary, miracles also streak across our consciousness every day. We can choose to notice…
— Deepak Chopra
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It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so…
— Thomas Szasz
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