Citizens Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

14 Citizens quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s reflections on the individual’s place in the community are distilled into fourteen thoughtful lines.

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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

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The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

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Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out…

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The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal…

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Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers,…

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An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a…

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I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it…

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I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There…

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Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike…

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We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not,…

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Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing…

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But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow,…

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There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who…

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In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born;…

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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

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“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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