139 quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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“Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Good men must not obey the laws too well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Men are what their mothers made them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“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

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“Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Money often costs too much.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“A good indignation brings out all one's powers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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