Ralph Waldo Emerson

(134 votes)   Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(134 votes)   The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(134 votes)   To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(133 votes)   Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(132 votes)   Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(131 votes)   Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(131 votes)   Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(130 votes)   Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(130 votes)   The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(129 votes)   Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(128 votes)   The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(126 votes)   He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(126 votes)   If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(126 votes)   The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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(126 votes)   The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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