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Usage Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound…
- In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are…
- The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.
- There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of…
- Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
- I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that…
- Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form…
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