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Famous Quotes in History by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 4
Here are some famous quotes in history by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
This is page 4 of 4.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
The first lesson of history is the good of evil.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
The people are to be taken in very small doses.
There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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He fell down a great deal during his boyhood because of a trick he had of walking into himself.
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