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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Quotes By author - Starting with R - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every principle is a war-note. Whoever attempts to carry out the rule of right and love and freedom must take his life in his hand.
Subject:
War
Principle
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Subject:
Taxes
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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
Subject:
Politics
Politicians
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All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Subject:
Progress
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is a confession of character.
Subject:
Character
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Subject:
Truth
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Subject:
Friendship
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There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.
Subject:
Grief
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Subject:
Courage
Mankind
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Subject:
Friendship
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