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Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
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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Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
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The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
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There is properly no history, only biography.
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In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.
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Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.
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