Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Atheist Quotes, Men Quotes

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

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Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

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Every hero becomes a bore at last.

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My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

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The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.

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We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with thespirit of the times. The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

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There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

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He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

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The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

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You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

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Some people are born very far from home.

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The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

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If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.

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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

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All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength.

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