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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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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Subject:
Life
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Subject:
Taxes
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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is a confession of character.
Subject:
Character
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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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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Subject:
Friendship
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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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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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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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