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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.»
«The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.»
«It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.»
«Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.»
«A good indignation brings out all one's powers.»
«Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.»
«Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.»
«People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.»
«There is a tendency for things to right themselves.»
«Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.»
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