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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«Our strength grows out of our weakness»
«Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
acquire, An electric, conditions, electric, electricity, electric company, electric power, favorable, for a while, glasses, permanently, rubbed, rubbing, rub up
«The art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Richness
| Keywords:
saving, timeliness, well-ordered
«A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.»
«Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Curiosity
| Keywords:
lying-in, lying in wait
«The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself»
«The greatest man in history was the poorest»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Greatness
| Keywords:
in history, poorest
«I hate quotations.»
«Every man I meet is in some way my superior.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
in some way
«The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
abide, abide by, by fits and starts, fits, generosity, genuine, heroic, heroism, impulses, persistency, reconcile, resolved, wandering, weakly
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