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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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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An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye it transcends speech it is the bodily symbol of identity.
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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
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Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.
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Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.
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Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
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Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.
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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
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We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.
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Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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