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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

«what is a man good for without enthusiasm?»
«The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.»
«Necessity does everything well.»
«A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us»
«He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.»
«The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.»
«I like man, but not men»
«Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind»
«Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better»
«The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power»