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«It is so easy to give a naughty boy a slap, overpower him in an instant, and make him obey, that in this world of hurry and distraction, who can possibly spend time to wait for the slow return of his reason and the conquest of himself in the uncertai»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
conquest, overpower, overpowered, overpowering, Return Of, slap
«Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love. Friendship,like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
Analogies, analogy, diastole, Immortality of the Soul, systole
«The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent / for every effect a perfect cause / and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
affinity, cent, common cause, merchant, Old Road, One Pound, sense of purpose
«Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches»
«The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go»
«I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.»
«Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.»
«It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time»
«Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.»
«Every hero becomes a bore at last.»
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