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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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I honor health as the first Muse.
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Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.
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Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
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Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.
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All the world loves a lover.
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Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.
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Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.
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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
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