Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Country Quotes, Clothes Quotes

Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country.

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When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race.

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Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

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The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

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Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.

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The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

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There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

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But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

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In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

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Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

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The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

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Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.

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In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

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A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

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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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Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

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Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

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