"We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses."
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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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The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to…
— Jean Baudrillard
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A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful…
— Elizabeth Blackwell
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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the…
— Elizabeth Blackwell
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I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to…
— Grace Paley
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War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is…
— Charles Tupper
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In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation…
— Karl Marx
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In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which…
— Karl Marx
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