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Fit Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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.…
- If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent…
- Thought makes everything fit for use.
- Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he…
- 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…
- Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
- We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer…
- The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be…
- There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance…
- They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
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