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The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.
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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I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.
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The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.
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Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.
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Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.
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When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.
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All the great ages have been ages of belief.
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The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
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It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.
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Religion must always be a crab fruit it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.
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There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
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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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If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.
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The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought
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