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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
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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And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.
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The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
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The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.
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The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
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Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
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He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves
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Obedience alone gives the right to command.
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Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.
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Society does not love its unmaskers.
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No facts to me are sacred none are profane.
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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
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If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.
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If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.
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The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
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Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
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