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"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made."
Quote by -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“punished people sometimes pass punishment downward, especially to members of their own devalued group.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“Our current plight is not made inevitable by human nature. What once was could be again—in a new way.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conversation is a game of circles. In conversation we pluck up the termini which bound the common of silence on every side.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would lift me you must be on higher ground. If you would liberate me you must be free. If you would correct my false view of facts, — hold up to me the same facts in the true order of thought, and I cannot go back from the new conviction.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every excess causes a defect; every defect an excess. Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it, so no man has a thorough acquaintance with the hindrances or talents of men, until he has suffered from the one, and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will say, get health. No labor, pains, temperance, poverty, nor exercise, that can gain it, must be grudged.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no past at my back.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson