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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in the spirit and energy it awakens.
There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,-the raw material of possible poems and histories.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Intemperance is the only vulgarity.
The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.
You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
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