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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

«Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.»
«If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.»
«Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.»
«The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.»
«Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.»
«If a man owns land, the land owns him.»
«The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.»
«Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.»
«I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.»
«No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.»