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QuoteWorld :: Evil :: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Evil category:
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"So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains." 4.5000 average rating  
"Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams." 4.8000 average rating  
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss." 4.4545 average rating  
"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good." 4.3684 average rating  
"If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side...when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time...is a very good one..." 2.5000 average rating  
"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it." 4.8571 average rating  
"A good intention clothes itself with power." 3.2500 average rating  
"It is very hard to be simple enough to be good." 5.0000 average rating  
"I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy." 5.0000 average rating  
"If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods." 4.0000 average rating