Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Human Nature
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
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Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.
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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.
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The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
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The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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