Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Nor mourn the unalterable Days That Genius goes and Folly stays.
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'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
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The less government we have, the better, - the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.
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The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.
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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
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The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity, Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew.
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Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.
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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
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Do what we can, summer will have its flies: if we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitos: if we go a-fishing, we must expect a wet coat.
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Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.
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Art is a jealous mistress.