"Things have their laws as well as men,……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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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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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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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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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
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The law is reason, free from passion.
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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the…
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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