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Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Universities are, of course, hostile to geniuses, which seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
As gas light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon or make a better mouse trap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Begin and proceed on a settled and not to be shaken conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man? (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practised man relies on the language of the first (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly: The peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature... And can only, like invalids, act on the defensive (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works, and the education of the will is the flowering and result of all this geology and astronomy (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)