1368 ordspråk av Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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We are wiser than we know.
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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has not superfluous parts; which exactly answers its ends.
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We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables
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We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry
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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents
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We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly in to the future; but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today
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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.
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We change, whether we like it or not
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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
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We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action
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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
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We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts
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We do what we can, and then make up a theory to prove our performance the best.
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