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Famous Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson - 3

This is page 3 of famous quotes by the American essayist, poet and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Few envy the consideration enjoyed by the oldest inhabitant.

A man of no conversation should smoke.

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, for the rest of his days.

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagent, and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

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