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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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
Waldo Emerson
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We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.
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One of our statesmen said, The curse of this country is eloquent men.
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Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.
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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.
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From Washington, proverbially the city of distances, through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.
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The history of reform is always identical it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves
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God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
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The virtue in most request is conformity.
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And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
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All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration out there in history we can see its fatal strength.
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In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.
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If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
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The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.
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What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.
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No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.
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