Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Religious Quotes, Religion Quotes

Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

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I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

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If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent, or deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still. Whose is so? Not mine; not thine; not his. But I think we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit? and we must not cease to tend to the correction of these flagrant wrongs, by laying one stone aright every day.

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Every great man is unique.

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Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

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Society does not love its unmaskers.

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Man is the dwarf of himself.

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You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

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Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

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Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

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The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

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Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

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A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

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Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

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If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

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The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

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Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.

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