"We do not quite forgive a giver. The……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten."
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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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New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten…
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Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.
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We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen…
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I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite…
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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On one occasion I got this really bizarre horoscope thing from someone. It was a full-on zodiac reading, charting and…
— Robert Pattinson
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Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the…
— Charles Spurgeon
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O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much…
— William Carlos Williams
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What I compare bike lanes to is swimming with the sharks. Sooner or later you're going to get bitten... Roads…
— Rob Ford
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Ok let me explain, if you were bitten by a mad infected dog, who will you blame? the dog or…
— Robert De Niro
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I always played hockey, I was always a hockey fan, but I was never bitten by the hockey bug... I…
— Chris Jericho
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Newt Gingrich was campaigning at a zoo this week and he was bitten by a penguin. Newt Gingrich is always…
— Bill Maher
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