Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Power Quotes

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

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Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

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Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

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All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

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A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

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Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

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Power is the first good.

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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

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God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.

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You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

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A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.

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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

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There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

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A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation.

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O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

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That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.

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