Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Long Quotes, Use Quotes

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

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Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

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We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations, acting individually or in concert, will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.

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The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

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The iron ring is worn out by constant use. [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]

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We found the bathrooms, which were labeled 'Aliens' and 'Femaliens.' 'Finally,' I said to J.Lo. 'Here's a bathroom you're allowed to use.

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The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use

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Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.

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He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.

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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

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The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.

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Fairies use flowers for their charactery.

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I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

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I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.

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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.

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What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.

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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

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Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

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Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

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