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Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
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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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat self-control is the rule.
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Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature. The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no skepticism, no atheism but that. Could it be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.
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A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.
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That man is idle who can do something better.
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True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.
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It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
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Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.
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We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.
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A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.
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People are timid and apologetic they are no longer upright they dare not say I think, I am, but quote some saint or sage. They are ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones they are for what they are they exist with God to-day.
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We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
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Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.
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Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
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Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.
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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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The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.
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