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QuoteWorld :: Power :: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Power category:
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"I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow." 4.3750 average rating  
"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first." 4.5000 average rating  
"A good intention clothes itself with power." 3.2500 average rating  
"A man's wife has more power over him than the state has." 4.6667 average rating  
"The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers." 2.6000 average rating