Ralph Waldo Emerson

(103 votes)   Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(102 votes)   God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(102 votes)   There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(101 votes)   Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(101 votes)   Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(100 votes)   Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(100 votes)   Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

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(100 votes)   The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(99 votes)   All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(99 votes)   Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(99 votes)   The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(99 votes)   There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(98 votes)   A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(98 votes)   A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

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(98 votes)   No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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