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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

Topics

Life Man Rest House Now Repair

It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.

John Doerr

Water Do The Right Thing Stupid Sorry

When I got divorced, I knew I needed to step it up, so I taught nutrition at a college, modeled, and built my dietitian practice all over Canada.

Maye Musk

Practice Step College Canada Over

It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it.

Robert Stone

Think Name Easy You Country Create

My worst days are still pretty good days. That's something I might lose in the moment sometimes, but I have a pretty good grasp of it.

Andy Roddick

Good Moment Lose Sometimes Worst

The more people are listening to music and experiencing it, the more value for both the music companies and the artist, especially when their financial model is built around that . With the music industry, everybody is starting to understand that doesn't begin with a piece of music.

Troy Carter

Music Value People Listening Artist

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.

Rose Tremain

Beginning Me Writing Feel Plan Tell

Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work.

Robert Wilson

Work Body Shakespeare Chekhov

When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet.

Mickey Hart

Music Grateful Powerful Dead Planet

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need: it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden. As kids, we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could.

Jay-Z

Life Day Rich Poverty You Every Day

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.

Douglas Hurd

Great Time Past Ideas Understanding

I know a lot of very stable gay couples.

Condoleezza Rice

Gay Know Couples Stable Very Lot

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

Bono

Writing Song Doing Help Know Seem