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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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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How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.
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Power educates the potentate.
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Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.
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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
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A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.
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It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.
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They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
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Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.
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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.
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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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The surest poison is time.
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Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
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Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.
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And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
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In imitation is a bit suicide.
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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
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An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.
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Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.
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