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I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. View quote
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Courage consists in the power of self-recovery. View quote
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Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it. View quote
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There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy. View quote
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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. View quote
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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he. View quote
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Obedience alone gives the right to command. View quote
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As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. View quote
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To fill the hour that is happiness. View quote
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Language is a city to the building of which every human Being brought a stone. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. View quote
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When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn. View quote
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That man is idle who can do something better. View quote
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Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged. View quote
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Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble. View quote
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Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. View quote
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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth it is the beginning of wisdom. View quote
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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy. View quote
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We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments. View quote
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There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused. View quote
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Speak the affirmative emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject. View quote
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The man for whom the law exists the man of forms, the conservative is a tame man. View quote
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Things have their laws as well as men things refuse to be trifled with. View quote
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Occupation: American Philosopher
Born: May 25, 1803
Died: April 27, 1882
Quotes count: 1647
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