Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Kings Quotes, Real Quotes

We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.

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We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.

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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

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Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

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Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.

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If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.

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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

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All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

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The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.

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Skill to do comes of doing.

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Every man is grave alone.

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Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

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Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

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You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

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For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, and the town must save that the State may spend.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

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The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

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