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2913 quotesGood manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Manners
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
Courage
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
Conventionality
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
Expectation
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Extra Mile
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If a man owns land, the land owns him.
Property
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.
Thoughts and Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Books - Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
Learning
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Honesty
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
Words
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Language
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Manners
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
Heaven
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Fortune
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Greatness
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
Property
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No man can help another without helping himself.
Service
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Learning
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
Understanding
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.
Possibilities
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
Genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun