Care Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

22 Care quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s essays often champion self‑reliance, yet he also probes the duty of care. These twenty‑two excerpts balance his philosophical vigor with heartfelt concern.

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You can take better care of your secret than another can.

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Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.

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We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.

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Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

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Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

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We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you.…

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Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most…

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Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his…

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We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides…

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Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he…

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The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are…

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What care though rival cities soar Along the stormy coast, Penn's town, New York, Baltimore, If Boston knew the most!

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In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal…

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A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or…

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Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with…

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The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse…

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Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so…

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The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.…

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and…

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Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still…

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Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a…

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Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care…

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

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