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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
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
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Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us country folk, and we do not think any good will come of it. We have not dollars merchants have let them give them. Farmers will give corn poets will sing women will sew laborers will lend a hand the children will bring flowers.
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Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function living is the functionary.
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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
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I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.
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Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see the world is full.
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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.
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