Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay
Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay...
Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this.
The characteristic of genuine heroism is persistency. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay
Beware when the great God lets loose a genius upon the world.
Then all things are at risk. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay...
He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay
The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine.
The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible....
We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
Our age yields no great and perfect persons....
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ea
he profit of books is accordi...
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself...

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