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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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Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit friendship in possession.
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The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.
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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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Power educates the potentate.
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Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.
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Every day, the sun and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him?
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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The universe is the externalization of the soul.
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A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.
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The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.
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