Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Soul Quotes, Would Be Quotes

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

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I couldn't kill myself. I would be afraid the minute I did it; something really good would happen and I'd miss it.

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I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one.

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Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

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MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been.

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How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

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If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.

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There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

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Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

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Without music, life would be a blank to me.

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A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.

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A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone

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I suspected there would be a good-size crowd once the word got out about my hanging.

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If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.

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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

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If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

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Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

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