Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Girl Quotes

Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

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There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

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The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

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The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.

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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

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For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done.

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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it

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The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it.

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A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

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The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

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For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

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Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

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I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

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Money often costs too much.

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Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

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The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

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For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

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