"Two may talk and one may hear, but……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort."
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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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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn…
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You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.
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The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.
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Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods…
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After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.
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[Believers] have joy and comfort-that joy that angels cannot give, and devils cannot take.
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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If you love a person, by and by the person becomes the door to the whole. But one has to…
— Rajneesh
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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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Physically you are a human being, but mentally you are incomplete. Given that we have this physical human form, we…
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Heaven can wait, but I cannot. I cannot take for granted that time is on my side.
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