Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Evil Quotes

Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation. We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one; we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit, which is directly received.

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When the night is darkest, the stars come out.

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The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

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Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

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The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

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A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.

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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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We put our love where we have put our labor.

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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

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The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

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As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

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As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.

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Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

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At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.

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