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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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Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
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What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.
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Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
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The value of a dollar is to buy just things a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.
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There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.
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I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
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The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.
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Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
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The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.
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Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.
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There is properly no history, only biography.
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A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
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Slavery it is that makes slavery freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
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But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.
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