"Why should we fear to be crushed by……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?"
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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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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this…
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You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised.…
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When crushed to your knees, it is best to dig in your heels.
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He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced,…
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The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in…
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Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look…
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The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult…
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many…
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
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The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments…
— Clarence Day
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A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown…
— George Sand
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the…
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