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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1857.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

BioData:

  • DoB:  25 May 1803
  • PoB: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Death: 27 April 1882 (78)
  • Education: Harvard Divinity School
  • Civil Status: Ellen Louisa Tucker (m. 1829; d. 1831); Lydian Jackson (m. 1835)
  • Career: Essayist, Poet, Lecturer, Philosopher

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘ All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.’’
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

All mankind love a lover.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do…. Build, therefore, your own world.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person’s point of view.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
– RW Emerson

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty without expression is boring.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Envy is ignorance.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale ’til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Frankness invites frankness.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please – you can never have both.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson< …
It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do”.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is the antidote to fear- knowledge, use and reason. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
— Emerson

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money often costs too much.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pictures must not be too picturesque.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shallow men believe in luck.  Strong men believe in cause and effect.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
– RW Emerson

Sorrow makes us all children again — destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

To different minds, the same world is hell, and a heaven.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The bitterest tragic element in life is the belief in a brute fate or destiny.
– Emerson

The civilised man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. – Ralph Waldo Emerson …The affirmative of affirmative is love.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is – “Let there be truth between us two forevermore.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man … place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There’s nothing capricious in nature, and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is this to be said in favour of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
– Emerson

The ancestor of every action is a thought.
– Emerson

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I must do, is all that concerns me, and not what people think.
– Emerson.

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quoting Benjamin Franklin

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Did you know?

Benjamin Franklin was one of the 56 men who signed America’s Declaration of Independence.

Benjamin Franklin is widely known to be the only President of the United States who was never a President of United States.  Meaning his reputation as a statesman is such that everyone thought he was once a president but sadly he was not.

Benjamin Franklin was the 15th amongst the 17th children his parents begot – big family.

Benjamin Franklin apparently brought to the USA the first bathtub in 1790.  It was from France and made of copper.  The tub was in a shape of a shoe and still very rudimentary.  It doesn’t have the taps for ready hot and cold water.  Everything was brought from another source manually.   Be that as it may, Benjamin Franklin loved his bathtub so much that he spent a great deal of time on it whilst reading and writing. 😉

 

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A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.
– Benjamin Franklin

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
—Franklin
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Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
– Benjamin Franklin
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union.  He is an incomplete animal.  He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
– Benjamin Franklin
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Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
– Benjamin Franklin
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Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
– Benjamin Franklin
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“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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Creditors have better memories than debtors
-Benjamin Franklin
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“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing”
Benjamin Franklin
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“Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
– Franklin
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Fish and visitors stink after three days.
– Benjamin Franklin
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He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
– Benjamin Franklin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
– Benjamin Franklin
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He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.
~Benjamin Franklin

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
– Benjamin Franklin

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
– Benjamin Franklin

If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman’s house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.
—Franklin.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eat about twice as much as nature requires.
—Franklin

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half-shut afterwards.
– Benjamin Franklin

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
~Benjamin Franklin

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
– Benjamin Franklin

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Necessity never made a good bargain.
– Benjamin Franklin

Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
– Benjamin Franklin

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Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.
– Benjamin Franklin

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The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.
—Franklin.
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The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes , and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor.
~Benjamin Franklin
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There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
– Benjamin Franklin
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There never was a good war or a bad peace.
– Benjamin Franklin
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There was never a good war or a bad war.
– Benjamin Franklin
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There are three things that are extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.
– Benjamin Franklin
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There are three faithful friends: an old wife, and old dog, and ready money.
– Franklin
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“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
Benjamin Franklin
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Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.
– Benjamin Franklin

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
– Benjamin Franklin
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Well done is better than well said.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Charles Dickens

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NPG P301(19),Charles Dickens,by (George) Herbert WatkinsCharles Dickens is 200 years old tomorrow. He was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812. His immense contribution to English literature means that he is never away of the limelight. His novels and short stories have been made into countless movies, musicals and dramas.List of Work by Charles Dickens

List of Work by Charles Dickens

Novels by Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers – 1836
Oliver Twist – 1837
Nicholas Nickleby – 1838
The Old Curiosity Shop – 1840
Barnaby Rudge – 1841
Martin Chuzzlewit – 1843
Dombey and Son – 1846
David Copperfield – 1849
Bleak House – 1852
Hard Times – 1854
Little Dorrit – 1855
A Tale of Two Cities – 1859
Great Expectations – 1860
Our Mutual Friend – 1864
The Mystery of Edwin Drood – 1870

Just some of the Dickens’s short stories and other works

American Notes
The Battle of Life
The Chimes: A Goblin Story
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Tree
A Dinner at Poplar Walk
Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions
A Flight
Frozen Deep
George Silverman’s Explanation
Going into Society
The Haunted Man
Holiday Romance
The Holly-Tree
Hunted Down
The Long Voyage
Master Humphrey’s Clock
A Message from the Sea
Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy
Public Life of Mr. Trumble, Once Mayor of Mudfog
Sketches by Boz
The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton
Sunday under Three Heads
Tom Tiddler’s Ground
Travelling Abroad – City of London Churches
The Uncommercial Traveller
Wreck of the Golden Mary

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
~Charles Dickens
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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
~Charles Dickens
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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
– Charles Dickens

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As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence.
– Charles Dickens

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Bring in the bottled ligthning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
– Dickens
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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
– Dickens
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It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.
– Charles Dickens
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Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.
– Charles Dickens

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Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

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No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
– Charles Dickens

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
– Charles Dickens

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
– Charles Dickens
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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess.
– Charles Dickens

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Madonna Talks….

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images (2)I love Madonna.  I remember all her songs in the 80s.  In fact they are my favourite ones.  I love Material Girl, Crazy for You and Like a Virgin.  Madonna was what the 80s was all about, big hair, bright blue, if rather garish, eye-shadows, big shoulder pads, huge tinkling earrings, lots of chunky bracelets, pop socks, and many more.

Yes, I grew up or sadly became older with Madonna.  But she is an icon and I am not! LOL

Let’s hear from our icon, who is still going strong in the 21st Century.

I always thought I should be treated like a star.
– Madonna
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Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as sheep.
– Madonna
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Children always understand. They have open minds. They have built-in shit detectors.
– Madonna
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Everyone probably thinks that I’m a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I’d rather read a book.
– Madonna
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Having money is just the best thing in the world.
– Madonna

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I’m tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want.  If that makes me a bitch, OK.
– Madonna
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I am a survivor, I am like a cockroach, you just can’t get rid of me.
– Madonna
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I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.
– Madonna
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I have the same goal I’ve had since I was a little girl. I want to rule the world.
– Madonna

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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly outdated institution it is.
– Madonna

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At a recent Hello! issue, Madonna was quoted:

“Love does change your life. What we also have to understand is happiness lies in our own hands, not someone else’s.”

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Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done.
-Madonna

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When I get down on my knees, It is not to pray.
– Madonna
(When I get down on my knees, I find it hard to get up again. LOL)