Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Long Quotes, Use Quotes

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

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A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

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He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.

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He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use

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It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

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Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

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What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

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I'm one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I'm the only DJ that's scratching.

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Take what you can do and use it for the highest good to benefit others.

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I'm a uniter not a divider. That means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up.

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Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

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Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

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To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.

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While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

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Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

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