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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

«The highest virtue is always against the law.»
«The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.»
«The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.»
«The man for whom the law exists -- the man of forms, the conservative -- is a tame man.»
«The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.»
«The reality is more excellent than the report.»
«Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own. The Conservative»
«Every thing is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.»
«A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.»
«A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.»