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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

«No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit»
«I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions»
«Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action»
«Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function»
«That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so»
«If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods»
«Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy»
«I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son»
«Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money»
«People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with bad»