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Constitution Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel…
- A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast.…
- The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its…
- Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the…
- The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the…
- It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it…
- The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any…
- War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that…
- The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.
- Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
- 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;…
- 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…
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