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Famous Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.”
“The world exists for the education of each man.”
“To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.”
“You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.”
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
“A man's library is a sort of harem.”
“Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.”
“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.”
“All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.”
“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going”
“A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.”
“Men are respectable only as they respect.”
“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant”
“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship”