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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

«Some books leave us free and some books make us free.»
«We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables»
«Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise»
«The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him»
«If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument»
«Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit»
«Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished»
«The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy»
«When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practised man relies on the language of the first»
«The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence»