Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Im Sorry Quotes, Public Opinion Quotes

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.

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A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

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What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

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I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

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Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

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When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

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All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.

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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

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The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

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Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto

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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

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Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

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All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

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Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

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Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.

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What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

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A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.

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True wit never made us laugh.

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