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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.»
«Do what you know and perception is converted into character.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
converted, perception
«Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
adopted, adopts, cultivation, cumulative, extemporaneous, force, Half a Life, half life, imitate, imitated, insist, insisted, life force, possession, talent
«All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle»
«It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak»
«The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
civilization, Civilization I, eventually, human race, race
«The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
afraid, commits, dishonored, dishonoring, dishonors, god, religion, science, science and religion, suicide, suicides, that is
«The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
greatest, homage, pay, The Greatest, use
«The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.»
«Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.»
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