 Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance, 1841
Money, which represents the prose of life, and is hardly spoken of in parlors without apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self Reliance (1841)
"Then again, do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance
The less government we have, the better-- the fewer laws and the less confided power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays
Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance
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