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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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It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.
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Every word was once a poem.
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Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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All mankind love a lover.
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Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.
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Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
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What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.
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Society does not love its unmaskers.
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Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.
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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.
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The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.
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Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.
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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.
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Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
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We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.
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Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.
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