1368 ordspråk av Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People say law but they mean wealth.
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People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.
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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
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Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
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Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an
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Poverty consist in feeling poor.
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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
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Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
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Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
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Pride ruined the angels.
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