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"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made."
Quote by -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“punished people sometimes pass punishment downward, especially to members of their own devalued group.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“Our current plight is not made inevitable by human nature. What once was could be again—in a new way.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conversation is a game of circles. In conversation we pluck up the termini which bound the common of silence on every side.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would lift me you must be on higher ground. If you would liberate me you must be free. If you would correct my false view of facts, — hold up to me the same facts in the true order of thought, and I cannot go back from the new conviction.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every excess causes a defect; every defect an excess. Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it, so no man has a thorough acquaintance with the hindrances or talents of men, until he has suffered from the one, and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will say, get health. No labor, pains, temperance, poverty, nor exercise, that can gain it, must be grudged.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no past at my back.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck or circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 with his shadow on the wall.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness, with which one chemical atom meets another.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can another be so blessed, and we so pure, that we can offer him tenderness? When a man becomes dear to me, I have touched the goal of fortune.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
It should never fall into something usual and settled, but should be alert and inventive, and add rhyme and reason to what was drudgery.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is fit for serene days, and graceful gifts, and country rambles, but also for rough roads and hard fare, shipwreck, poverty, and persecution.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are to dignify to each other the daily needs and offices of man’s life, and embellish it by courage, wisdom and unity.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.
Quote by -Mother Teresa
Large, uninterrupted block of time — 3-5 hours minimum — create the space needed to find and connect the dots. And one block per week isn’t enough.
Quote by -Tim Firris