1368 ordspråk av Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased
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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
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The aristocrat is the democrat ripe and gone to seed
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The art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
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The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.
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The basis of good manners is self-reliance.
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The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary
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The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
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The best bribe which London offers today to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist . . .
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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence
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