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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2602, Delphi Classics

He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1919). “The Conduct of Life: Nature and Other Essays”

Wise men are not wise at all times.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.364

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.290, Library of America

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1968). “Nature: With an Introd., a Note on the Text”

Thought makes everything fit for use.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1420, Delphi Classics

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.155, Harvard University Press

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, second series”, p.128, Harvard University Press

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.46, Courier Corporation

New arts destroy the old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.93, Graphic Arts Books

New York is a sucked orange.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.803, Modern Library

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.108, Harvard University Press

The city is recruited from the country.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Essays”, p.396, ReadHowYouWant.com

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2742, Delphi Classics

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.270, Harvard University Press