Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Freedom Quotes, 4th Of July Quotes

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

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All science is transcendental or else passes away.

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Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

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Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!

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A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

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Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

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The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

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No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

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We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

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Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.

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Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate; he will not lift his hand to save his life; he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.

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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

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He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living.

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A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

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Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

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Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.

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