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QuoteWorld :: Wants :: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Wants category:
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"The reliance on property is...the want of self-reliance. [Men] measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...(Essays)" 4.7500 average rating  
"Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes." 4.9231 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  
"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can." 4.6667 average rating  
 




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