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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
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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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.
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The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.
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People who know how to act are never preachers.
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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.
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I like people who like Plato.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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Great men exist that there might be greater men.
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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.
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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low for we musthave a society.
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Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.
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Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.
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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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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.
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