"When the spirit is not master of the……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe."
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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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We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool…
— Giacomo Casanova
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PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's…
— Wesley Morris
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We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it…
— Diane de Poitiers
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As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women…
— Giacomo Casanova
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I did not go to the Supreme Court on behalf of a class of women. I wasn't pursuing any legal…
— Norma McCorvey
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I love advertising because I love lying. I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles…
— Ambrose Bierce
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PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that…
— Ambrose Bierce
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In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall…
— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and…
— Remy de Gourmont
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