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Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. In Fate
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
'To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children... to leave the world a better place... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.'
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. Anger
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson