Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Fighting

• It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fighting, Ignorant, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2972, Delphi Classics

• Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Fighting, Justice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.211, Delphi Classics

• The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made ... Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities ... Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Fighting, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.279, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Fighting, Hot

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.209, Penguin

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