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Against Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion.…
- No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
- Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
- The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
- We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when…
- Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.
- We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
- The highest virtue is always against the law.
- Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has…
- If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your…
- Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.
- No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.
- A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions…
- The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.
- And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER,…
- In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
- No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this;…
- If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
- Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
- These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in…
- Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the…
- Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong…
- Do not waste yourself in rejection; do not bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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