Sacrifice Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

12 Sacrifice quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s take on sacrifice is steeped in his transcendentalist outlook, urging readers to see personal loss as a path to inner growth. These twelve statements distill his belief that true freedom often demands a willing surrender.

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When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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“If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the…

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Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household…

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The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight…

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Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good…

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The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every…

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The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing…

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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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The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might…

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Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. Do not go where the path may lead, go…

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