Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Crime
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The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.
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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.
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Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
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The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.
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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
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We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
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No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
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The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.
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On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.
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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.
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Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.
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Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
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The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.
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The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
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