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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
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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In England every man you meet is some man's son in America, he may be some man's father.
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The universe is represented in every one of it's particles. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb.
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Housekeeping is not beautiful it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child neither the host nor the guestit oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
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Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.
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The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
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The religions we call false were once true.
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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.
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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.
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As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.
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The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
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Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.
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It is said, no man can write but one book and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.
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