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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
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 astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the state, the church, yea the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart. With so much awe, with so much fear, let it be respected.
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Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.
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Money is of no value it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
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If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.
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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
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O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
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There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.
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Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
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A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
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Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.
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Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.
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Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
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It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.
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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
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