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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time.»
«Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.»
«A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Best friend,
Friendship
| Keywords:
aloud, thinking aloud
«The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broad swords, or canals, or statues, or songs»
«All mankind love a lover.»
«I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.»
«Friendship demands the ability to do without it.»
«Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore»
«Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Quotations
| Keywords:
ancestors, forests, mines, quarries, quarry, quotation, The Quarry
«Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage»
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