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What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.
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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The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.
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The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.
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A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast. Its fit hour oactivity is night its actions are insane, like its whole constitution.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.
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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.
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Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
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I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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Beauty through my senses stole I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
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Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
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The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.
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The populace drags down the gods to their own level.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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All necessary truth is its own evidence.
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A man cannot speak but he judges himself
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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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The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
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