Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Inspiration Quotes, Law Quotes

Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

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Art is a jealous mistress.

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War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

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We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

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Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.

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No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

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The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

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Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore

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There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies in the man: that is all anybody can tell you about it.

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

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Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

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All writing comes by the grace of God.

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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.

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Science finds it methods.

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The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.

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Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

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Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

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Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures.

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Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.

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