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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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J.K. ROWLING On la connaît tous...
Cette solitude qui nous mine parfois.
Qui sabote notre sommeil ou p...
GUILLAUME MUSSO La plaine fit place à des rocailles parsemées de frêles arbustes et de fougères rabougries. Puis...
CYRILLE MENDES Il est incertain où la mort nous attende, attendons-la partout. La préméditation de la mort est p...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE La porte s’est ouverte tout de suite et est allée co - gner contre le mur. J’ai perçu un claqu...
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GUILLAUME MUSSO Tel fut aussi le cas d'un Nietzsche, génie volcanique s'il en est ; ici encore - mais d'une façon ...
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BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD L’enfer, ce n’est pas les autres, c’est l’obligation de vivre avec eux.
SYLVAIN TESSON On dit père grec, mère suisse-française... On me demande, mais alors, quelle est votre patrie? Je...
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ROSA MONTERO - J’aidais justement Ghezumi et Kassergh à bâter l’hypocras : du vin au miel avec de la cannel...
CYRILLE MENDES Tous les jours arrivaient des avions et sur chacun, il y avait un message.
« Gardez votre eau ...
CHRISTIANE DUCHESNE Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je n...
HENRI BARBUSSE Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
RAINN WILSON Socrate considérait que c'est un mal qui n'est pas loin de la folie, de s'imaginer que l'on possèd...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Moi qui éprouve, comme chacun, le besoin d’être reconnu, je me sens pur en toi et vais à toi. J...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and...
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JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE ... c'est peut-être ça la vie : beaucoup de désespoir mais aussi quelques moments de beauté où ...
MURIEL BARBERY Je ne connais pas la moitié d'entre vous autant que je le voudrais. Et j'aime moins de la moitié d...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us. [Fr., D...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD ... sentimentele slăbesc cînd le schimbi locul.../ Frédéric s’était attendu à des spa...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Les tentatives faites pour connaître la richesse et l'originalité des cultures humaines, et pour l...
CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS L'envers de l'amour n'est pas la haine mais le pouvoir
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Quoi qu’il en soit, Leibnitz ne sut jamais s’expliquer nettement sur les principes de son calcul...
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON What you are comes to you.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Hitch your wagon to a star.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
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Shadow and sunlight are the same;
The vanished gods to me appear;...
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Language is fossil poetry.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON By nature all people are alike, but by education become different
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The day are ever divine as to the first Aryans. They are of the least pretension, and of the great...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do st...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Nothing external to you has any power over you.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Today is a king in disguise.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought s...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Wherever there is power there is age.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any ot...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON An empire is an immense egotism.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have b...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distan...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks con...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicte...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent t...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Music causes us to think eloquently.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The world is his who has money to go over it.
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