Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Selfish Quotes, Men Quotes

The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a profane person,and became a showman, turning his gifts to marketable use, and not to his own sustenance and growth. It was found that the intellect could be independently developed, that is, in separation from the man, as any single organ can be invigorated, and the result was monstrous.

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Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.

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The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

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To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

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What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire.

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The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

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Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

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The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

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Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

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The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

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The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.

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Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.

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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature.... This conquering of the inner man, understanding the secrets of the subtle workings that are within the human mind, and knowing its wonderful secrets, belong entirely to religion.

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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

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Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

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Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

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When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.

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A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias. The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side.

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