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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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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Far or forgot to me is near Shadow and sunlight are the same The vanished gods to me appear And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out When me they fly, I am the wings I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
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What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.
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For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
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Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths Whence a smokeless incense breathes.
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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.
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Treat your friend as a spectacle.
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For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.
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The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere only the low habits need palaces and banquets.
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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.
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Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.
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Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.
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There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.
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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
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No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
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You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.
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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.
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