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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
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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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.
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I think all men know better than they do know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles but they darenot trust their presentiments.
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
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Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
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People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.
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Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
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The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
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I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.
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Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.
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The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.
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Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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Skepticism is slow suicide.
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Isolation must precede true society.
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God will not make himself manifest to cowards
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Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.
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