The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
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A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself But when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. Mrs. Yule stated in The Docket, Feb. 1912, that she copied this in her handbook from a lecture delivered by Emerson. The mouse-trap quotation was the occasion of a long controversy, owing to Elbert Hubbards claim to its authorship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are respectable only as they respect.
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Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
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All promise outruns performance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
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