Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Law Quotes

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

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Desire is possibility seeking expression.

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Character teaches above our wills.

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Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

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Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

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Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

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A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.

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If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

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Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

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Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

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Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

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I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius.

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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

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Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

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We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions.

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The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.

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