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Quotes of Ralph W Emerson [82]
- Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
- I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
- Character gives splendour to youth and awe to wrinkled skin and grey hairs.
- Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
- Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
- The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- The years teach much which the days never knew.
- 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
- Fear always springs from ignorance.
- Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
- Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
- The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it - so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.
- Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- There is no knowledge that is not power.
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