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Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
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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Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.
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It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere
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The first wealth is health.
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Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.
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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
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Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
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God enters by a private door into every individual.
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Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.
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If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
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The best nations are those most widely related and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.
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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins
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Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.
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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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