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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That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?

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Let there be worse cotton and better men.

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To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople: to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.

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You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

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Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

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England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.

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Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

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Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.

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Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

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When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race.

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A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

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Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

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I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.

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The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.

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Art is a jealous mistress.

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Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

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There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

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Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

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