"We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans,……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 quotes on this site.
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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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More Executioner Quotes
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one of 54 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
— Charles Baudelaire
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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
— Omar N. Bradley
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If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
— Marlon Brando
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with…
— Lucretius
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We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level…
— Greg Norman
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Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is…
— Thomas Browne
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The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender
— Anne Boleyn
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Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what…
— Alexander Herzen
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Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Christianity is religion for the executioner.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Revenge proves it's own executioner.
— John Ford
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Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his…
— J M Coetzee
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