1368 ordspråk av Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Then the ceiling fell in and the bottom fell out/ I went into a spin and I started to shout/ I've been hit. This is it. This is it! I . . T . . . IT!
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There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
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There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement
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There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.
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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
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There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
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There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, "Anywhere but here
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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
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There can be no high civility without a deep morality
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There can be no high civility without a deep morality
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There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better, or for worse as his portion.
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There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
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There is a crack in everything God has made.
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There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea
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