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Famous Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.”
“A man should carry nature in his head.”
“A man of no conversation should smoke.”
“As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.”
“The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.”
“Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.”
“Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.”
“For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?”
“There are some men above grief and some men below it.”
“Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.”
“If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.”
“Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.”
“The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.”
“The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.”
“No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.”
“Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.”
“We expect a great man to be a good reader.”
“Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.”