1368 ordspråk av Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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Blame is safer than praise
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Books are for nothing but to inspire.
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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire.
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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
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Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes
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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
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But in the mud and scum of things, There always, something sings
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
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By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
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By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattl'd farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world
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Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
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Can we never extract the tapeworm of Europe from the brain of our countrymen?
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