"When we are exalted by ideas, we do……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 quotes on this site.
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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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If the Lord should give you power to raise the dead, He would give much less than He does when…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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See the investment world as an ocean and buy where you get the most value for your money. Right now…
— John Templeton
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It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the…
— Charles Dickens
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Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be…
— Antonin Scalia
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So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve…
— Oswald Chambers
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The borrower is slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.
— Benjamin Franklin
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A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
— Publilius Syrus
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In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable…
— Octavius Winslow
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That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor…
— Paul Sarbanes
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O believer, learn to reject pride, seeing that you have no ground for it. Whatever you are, you have nothing…
— Charles Spurgeon
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