Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Writing Quotes, Men Quotes

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

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Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

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To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

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Man is his own worst enemy.

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Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!

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Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

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The soul of this man is his clothes.

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If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

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IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

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If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

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We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

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There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

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There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.

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[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

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There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.

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Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

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‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.

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Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.

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