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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window if heavy, it will obscure the light.
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Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.
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The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.
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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.
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