"There is a class of persons to whom……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP,…
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Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it…
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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent…
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I don't know why women feel an affinity with me.
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The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization…
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If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to…
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by…
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Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.
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If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of…
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I repeat again: the male mind is egoistic. You have to learn the way of the feminine, you have to…
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