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You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
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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In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.
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If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.
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I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.
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Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.
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Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?
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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
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The pest of society is egotists.
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And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It agitates and tears him, and perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.
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It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.
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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
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He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.
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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
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American mind a wilderness of opportunities.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.
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