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People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
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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No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.
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Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.
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[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.
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The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
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Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
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Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.
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There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.
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That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.
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Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.
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War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.
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I do not wish to please him I wish that he should wish to please me.
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Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
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