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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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
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Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
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The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
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Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.
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Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What manner of man does science make? The boy is not attracted. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.
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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.
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Let us leave hurry to slaves.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.
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