"Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar."
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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 Beggar Quotes
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one of 235 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Do we approach God from a beggar's perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him…
— David Jeremiah
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Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again…
— Swami Vivekananda
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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
— Karl Kraus
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Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have…
— John G. Lake
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Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And…
— William Shakespeare
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Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge,…
— Mason Cooley
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The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our…
— Mary McCarthy
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He…
— Thomas Adams
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which…
— Andre Gide
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Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the…
— Anzia Yezierska
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Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you…
— Swami Vivekananda
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