Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, War Quotes, Government Quotes

The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his.

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In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.

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Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

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It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

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Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

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Adult males are what their moms designed them.

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So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the Chancellors of God.

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The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

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When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

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Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.

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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

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We must be our own before we can be another's.

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There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

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On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

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What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

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You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

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it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

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