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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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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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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But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
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I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.
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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
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Books are the best of things if well used if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
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