"When it comes to divide an estate, the…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel."
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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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More Divide Quotes
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A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the…
— John Avlon
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
— Luis Barragan
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time…
— Arnold Bennett
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The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out…
— Tony Blair
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And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea.…
— Tony Blair
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
— H. Rap Brown
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I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
— Robert Carlyle
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a…
— Unknown Author
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