Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Change Quotes, Law Quotes

Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

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Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.

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The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

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To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.

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Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

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Power educates the potentate.

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I admire answers to which no answers can be made.

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Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

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The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

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A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.

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Good criticism is very rare and always precious.

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If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

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Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

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Genius Borrows nobly.

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It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

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Fear is cruel and mean.

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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

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