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Ethics Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
- Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.
- Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
- How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet…
- Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
- You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
- Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
- Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
- Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
- Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
- Men are respectable only as they respect.
- Self-trust is the first secret of success.
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