World Quotes

• "The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper."
  By: T. S. Eliot
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• "Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?"
  By: George Eliot
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• "The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
  By: George Eliot
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• "The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world."
  By: George Eliot
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• "It's them as take advantage that get advantage I this world."
  By: George Eliot
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