We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
- We are prisoners of ideas.
- Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
- Work is victory.
- The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
- Skill to do comes of doing.
- We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
- People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
- Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce
- A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Best Quotes
- Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
- My dad was a Methodist minister.
- Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
- I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
- The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
- I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
- All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.
- The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
- Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
- That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.