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459 quotes (Page 6 of 19 pages)Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
Courage
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Happiness
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He is great who confers the most benefits.
Service
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Greatness
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
Conventionality
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper.
Health
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
Heroes and Heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.
Vision
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
Expectation
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
Gratitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
Scholars and Scholarship
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
Friends and Friendship
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
Risk
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Quotations
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Extra Mile
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.
Education
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If a man owns land, the land owns him.
Property
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.
Thoughts and Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
Bragging
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Books - Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If we live truly, we shall see truly.
Life and Living
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun