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Essential Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Power is in nature the essential measure of right.
- If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man…
- A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.
- There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains…
- Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself.
- Sin seen from the thought, is a diminution or less: seen from the conscience or will, itis pravity or bad. The intellectnames it shade, absence…
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