Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Religious Quotes, Agriculture Quotes

But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.

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It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

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The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

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All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

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Society does not love its unmaskers.

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Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

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There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people that did not rank subordination and discipline among the signal virtues. Subjection to moods is the mark of a deteriorating morality. There is no baser servitude than that of the man whose caprices are his masters, and a nation composed of such men could not long preserve its liberties.

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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.

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Life is to be lived, not controlled.

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

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If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed.

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Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

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Power is the first good.

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The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

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Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

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The hero is he who is immovably centered.

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As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

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I like people who like Plato.

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Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

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So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.

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