Author Topic: ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes ~ (Read 15219 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #195 on:** August 09, 2015, 10:28:42 AM »

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

MysteRy · « **Reply #196 on:** August 09, 2015, 10:29:21 AM »

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed to be simple is to be great.

MysteRy · « **Reply #197 on:** August 09, 2015, 10:29:49 AM »

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

MysteRy · « **Reply #198 on:** August 09, 2015, 10:30:14 AM »

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.

MysteRy · « **Reply #199 on:** August 09, 2015, 10:30:41 AM »

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

MysteRy · « **Reply #200 on:** August 09, 2015, 10:31:06 AM »

The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #201 on:** August 09, 2015, 10:31:33 AM »

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

MysteRy · « **Reply #202 on:** August 09, 2015, 10:32:32 AM »

It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

MysteRy · « **Reply #203 on:** August 09, 2015, 10:32:58 AM »

The meaning of good and bad of better and worse is simply helping or hurting.

MysteRy · « **Reply #204 on:** August 09, 2015, 10:33:26 AM »

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.

MysteRy · « **Reply #205 on:** August 09, 2015, 10:33:55 AM »

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?

MysteRy · « **Reply #206 on:** August 09, 2015, 10:34:21 AM »

Good-bye proud world! I'm going home; Thou are not my friend; I am not thine.

MysteRy · « **Reply #207 on:** August 09, 2015, 10:34:48 AM »

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

MysteRy · « **Reply #208 on:** August 09, 2015, 10:35:16 AM »

For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

MysteRy · « **Reply #209 on:** August 09, 2015, 10:35:48 AM »

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

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