"Men cease to interest us when we..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.
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“We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.”
“I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?”
“If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”
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“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.”
“Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.”
“The fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.”
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“Words express neither objects nor ourselves.”
“Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.”
“One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?”