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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Universities are of...
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as...
We are reformers...
We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers...
We rail at...
We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled...
We do what...
We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result...
We love force...
We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.
Source: In Correct...
Washington, where an...
Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.
We are wiser...
We are wiser than we know.
Source: Essays, The Over-Soul.'
-- Ralph Waldo...
We sometimes meet...
We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented...
We forget ourselves...
We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these...
We must be...
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good...
We are shut...
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a...
We boast our...
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of...
We talk of...
We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
Source: In
We gain the...
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Source: In
We must set...
We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
We are taught...
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in...
We boil at...
We boil at different degrees.
Source: Society and Solitude, Eloquence, ...
We think our...
We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and morning...
We have more...
We have more than we use.
Source: In
We take care...
We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides...