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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
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
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There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all.
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How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.
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Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.
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As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.
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The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, All summer in the field, and all winter in the study. And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.
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There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are a transfusion takes place he is you, and you are he then is a teaching and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.
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Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.
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Life only avails, not the having lived.
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An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye it transcends speech it is the bodily symbol of identity.
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Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.
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I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.
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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
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I unsettle all things.
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All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us in other words, to engage us to obey.
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You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.
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Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.
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If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.
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