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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«So far as a person thinks; they are free.»
«We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.»
«Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.»
«The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.»
«Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.»
«Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.»
«Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.»
«One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.»
«The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.»
«Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, ''If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?»
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