"We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves."
—
Ralph Waldo Emerson
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
-
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
-
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
-
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
-
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
-
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
-
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
-
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
-
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
-
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
-
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
-
A little praise goes a great ways.
See all 2,823 quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson »
More Cannot Forgive Quotes
This quote is filed under Cannot Forgive Quotes,
one of 39 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
— Jean de la Bruyere
-
Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless,…
— Edward Abbey
-
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
— Publilius Syrus
-
The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of…
— Thomas S. Monson
-
I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped…
— Lewis B. Smedes
-
If I say, "Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forgive," as though the God, who twice a day washes all…
— Amy Carmichael
-
God dealt with our whole situation on the cross; there is nothing left for you to settle. Just say to…
— Corrie Ten Boom
-
When you forgive, some deeper, divine generosity takes you over... When you cannot forgive, you are a prisoner of the…
— John O'Donohue
-
Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: there are no situations…
— Pope Francis
-
I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and…
— John Steinbeck
-
Grace cannot forgive unconfessed sin.
— Rod Parsley
See all 39 Cannot Forgive Quotes »