Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Famous Quotations and Funny Sayings

"The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament."
Jean Jacques Rousseau &bull Freedom

"Some evils are cured by contempt."
Proverb &bull Hatred

"There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good."
Plato &bull Evil

"A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less."
Jean de la Bruyère &bull Greatness

"What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out."
Bertrand Russell &bull Belief

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(1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

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