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All life is an experiment.

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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
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As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
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In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.
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The State is our neighbors our neighbors are the State.
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If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
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The democrat is a young conservative the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.
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When it's dark enough men see stars.
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In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.
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The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.
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No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.
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Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.
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The borrower runs in his own debt.
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