Good Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

30 Good quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s philosophical leanings turn the notion of good into a call for self‑reliance and moral clarity. Thirty of his thoughts illustrate how he frames virtue as both personal responsibility and universal principle.

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If the race is good, so is the place.

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Doing well is a result of doing good.

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Power is the first good.

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Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

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Good men must not obey the laws too well.

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A good deal of our politics is physiological.

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All men in the abstract are just and good

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First be a good animal.

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“Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.”

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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

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A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

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It is with a good book as it is with good company.

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All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

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The best way to have a good friend is to be one.

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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

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The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

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A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop,…

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As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their…

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Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without…

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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is…

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Tis good-will makes intelligence.

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“a good reader makes a good book”

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He is a good man who can receive a gift well.

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Everything good is on the highway.

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Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

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“Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.”

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It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

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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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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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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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