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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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If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!
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One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.
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An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
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A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon.
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Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?
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That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose.
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Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
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One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars
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There is properly no history, only biography.
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In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.
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The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.
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In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful
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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health he must be at the top of his condition.
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Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.
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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.
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I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.
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