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Knowledge is the only elegance.
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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We change whether we like it or not.
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I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.
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Do your thing, and I shall know you.
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Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.
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Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.
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When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
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