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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
Bad Times, learner, learners, occasions, on occasion, scientific
«Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his day»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
architecture, Bad art, duties, embitter, embittered, embitters, fetter, fettered, in fetters, jealous, mistress, painting, provider, providers, season
«In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
agreements, creed, eagerly, fasten, fastening, fastens, identities, the matter
«A great man is always willing to be little.»
«Men are respectable only as they respect»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Men,
Respect
| Keywords:
respectable
«Self-trust is the first secret of success»
«Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good»
«The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
at any cost, fiend, fiends, The Fiend, torpid
«We do what we must, and call it by the best names.»
«Imagination is not the talent of some men, but is the health of every man»
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