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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

«Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?»
«These days come and go, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.?»
«Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.»
«With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.»
«The fundaments of a person are not in substance, but in spirits.»
«There is no chance, and no anarchy, in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.»
«Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.»
«The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.»
«The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.»
«It is a luxury to be understood.»