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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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The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.
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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
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The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.
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Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.
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Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
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Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.
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To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.
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