We are prisoners of ideas.
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are prisoners of ideas.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
- A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
- You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
- We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Work is victory.
- What a new face courage puts on everything.
- Every artist was first an amateur.
- You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Skill to do comes of doing.
- It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.
- Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.
Best Quotes
- Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
- Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
- I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
- My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.
- I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
- To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
- Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
- I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.
- We heed no instincts but our own.