Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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I love what Drake does, but I don't want to be called the Drake of country.
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This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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The acceleration of the number of traders buying into the market in the inflating bubble captures the oft-quoted observation that bubbles are times when the 'greater fool theory' applies.
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As long as we can be just the sidelight, the side issue, issues that deal with human beings, both men and women and children that should be given more prominence are not.
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Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
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There has always been discouragement, negativism, and temptation in the world because of Lucifer.
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Know that all healing forces are within, not without! The applications from without are merely to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
