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We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know it's utmost law (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns the gigantic pages - leaf after leaf - never re-turning one (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom! (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements? (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he do not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a God wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Music] takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
We cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefits we receive must be rendered again line for line, deed for deed to somebody (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle it's claim to praise (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)