Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Light Quotes, Police Quotes

As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

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The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.

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All men in the abstract are just and good.

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The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

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The city is recruited from the country.

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The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

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If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.

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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

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Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

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Our expenses are all for conformity.

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Skill to do comes of doing.

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The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.

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Dare to love God without mediator or veil.

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The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

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No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.

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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.

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I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

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Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

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What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

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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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