If a man owns land, the land owns him.
More Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
In creeds never was such levity witness the heathenism in Christianity, the periodic revivals, the Millennium mathematics, the peacock ritualism, the retrogression to Popery, the maundering of Mormons, the squalor of Mesmerism, the deliration ofRalph Waldo Emerson
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.
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