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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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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Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.
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It is with a good book as it is with good company.
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Power educates the potentate.
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The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
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My doom and my strength is to be solitary.
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He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.
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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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Ethics and religion differ herein that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God Ethics does not.
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Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.
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He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.
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