Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Quotes to Explore
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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Your man Flavor Flav is living!
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
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I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.
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I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
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Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.
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I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the South, who would have carried us safely through this Revolution.
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God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within a minute. And so the soul in which we sail, Unknown by years of thinking, Is deeply felt and understood, The minute that it’s sinking.
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
