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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.
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
Waldo Emerson
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I do not wish to please him I wish that he should wish to please me.
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The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.
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Good criticism is very rare and always precious.
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The State is our neighbors our neighbors are the State.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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I like man, but not men.
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