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The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.
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 like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat I will not love you.
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A good deal of our politics is physiological.
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Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?
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Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
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Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.
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Knowledge is the only elegance.
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The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief in denying them.
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An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.
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The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.
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Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.
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I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.
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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
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The best part of health is fine disposition
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The end of being is to know and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.
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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.
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