Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Law Quotes, Giving Quotes

My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him.

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If you see what is small as it sees itself, and accept what is weak for what strength it has, and use what is dim for the light it gives then all will go well. This is called Acting Naturally.

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99.9% of plumbers make less than a quarter million dollars a year, and I'm going to give Joe a break whether he wants it or not.

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He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity.

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Turkish soldiers are very brave. They love their homeland and they do not hesitate to give their lives for it if necessary.

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It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed.

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To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

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It is because the cosmos is meaningless that we must secure our individual illusions of values, direction, and interest by upholding the artificial streams which give us such worlds of salutary illusion. That is - since nothing means anything in itself, we must preserve the proximate and arbitrary background which makes things around us seem as if they did mean something.

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Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?

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Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.

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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

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Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

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Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

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Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

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The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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