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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
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The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.
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Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
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More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.
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Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
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Our distrust is very expensive.
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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
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Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.
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The dice of God are always loaded.
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A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.
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Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
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To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.
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Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn
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But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
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Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
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The populace drags down the gods to their own level.
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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
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Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
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