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Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do then...
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use...
I consider theology...
I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.
Source: North American Review, 1...
Every thought which...
Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
Source:...
Every violation of...
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human...
Fear defeats more...
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Source: In
I hate the...
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Source: In...
I find that...
I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
Source: In
Every wall is...
Every wall is a door.
Source: From Journey in Word, ed. Cyndi Craven.
-- Ralph...
Everything runs to...
Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
Source: In...
Give me health...
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
Source:...
I like man,...
I like man, but not men.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...
I hate quotations....
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Source: May 1849 entry, Journals and...
Genius Borrows nobly....
Genius Borrows nobly.
Source: In
Fate is nothing...
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Source: In...
Give no bounties:...
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
I pay the...
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
Source:...
I have heard...
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well...
Give me insight...
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
Source:...
Few people have...
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their...
Government has come...
Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make...