More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as bea…
  2. The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
  3. We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. In our barbarous society the inf…
  4. Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home: Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.
  5. Hence, the less government we have, the better, - the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Governm…
  6. For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
  7. Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure convey…
  8. Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent: All are needed by each one, Nothing is fair or good alone.

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