Else if you would be a man speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThings refuse to be mismanaged for long.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSociety everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOf all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTag: loss death death-and-dying
A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engrafted with a foreign stock.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFor what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
Ralph Waldo EmersonTag: inspirational freedom ralph-waldo-emerson
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.
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