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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
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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As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.
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Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.
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The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.
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Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space.
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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.
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Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.
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If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
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Wise men are not wise at all times.
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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
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Great men exist that there might be greater men.
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Manners are the happy ways of doing things each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
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Thought makes everything fit for use.
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What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to make a fortune, but it is, in few words, that he should explore himself.
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