Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes

A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time

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I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

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The development of man is a return to an original perfection.

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All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent; nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else; hence there is no ethics.

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The greater man the greater courtesy.

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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

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I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

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...an old man is twice a child.

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O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.

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Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.

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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

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The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

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When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

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Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

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France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood.

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The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.

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There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

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The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.

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Every man is eloquent once in his life.

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Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

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