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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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The only reward of virtue is virtue.
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Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.
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Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.
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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.
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We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
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Obedience alone gives the right to command.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
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It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
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We put our love where we have put our labor.
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Religion must always be a crab fruit it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.
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Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.
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Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.
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