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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I looked someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted thier answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I as looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I could answer. It took me a while and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself!»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
boomerang, boomerangs, self-contradictory
«A good intention clothes itself with power»
«When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Quarrels
| Keywords:
blameless, quarrel, quarreled, quarreling
«Skepticism is slow suicide»
«Great geniuses have the shortest biographies»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
biographies, geniuses, shortest
«I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes»
«Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, The Organization
«I see my trees repair their boughs»
«Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.»
«The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye»
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