Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Regret Quotes, Mind Your Own Business Quotes

You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

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Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

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But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.

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Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

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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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What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

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There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

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Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

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Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich.

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The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil. In the stomach of the plant development begins. The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main. The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.

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[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

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The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.

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Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

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The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.

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A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself.

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The world is the ring of his spells, And the play of his miracles.

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