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Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] ed”

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.84, Penguin

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.376

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.98, Graphic Arts Books

We pass for what we are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.356, University of Georgia Press

I like people who like Plato.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.390

Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

Address in Divinity College, americanliterature.com. July 15, 1838.

Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.316, Harvard University Press

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1362, Delphi Classics

America means opportunity, freedom, power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.285, University of Missouri Press

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1098, Delphi Classics