Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Luxury Quotes

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

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The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

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... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.

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The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.

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Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

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I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.

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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies - oh, yes, and how soon and how easily our dream-life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can't quite tell which is which, anymore.

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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

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Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

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When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

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No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.

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Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.

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If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

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