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Instead Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better…
- Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of…
- 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…
- It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past
- Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would…
- The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us…
- Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.
- War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza,…
- The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a…
- If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents,…
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do…
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
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