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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
What potent blood hath modest May!
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are, like Nebuchadnezzar, dethroned, bereft of reason, and eating grass like an ox.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson