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The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
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Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
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A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.
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The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded every sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.
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Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.
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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
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This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.
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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
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Every sweet has its sour every evil its good.
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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
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I do not wish to please him I wish that he should wish to please me.
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Slavery it is that makes slavery freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
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Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.
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Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
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