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A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures it is the finest of fine arts.
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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We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.
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Art is a jealous mistress and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
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There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all.
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Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.
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Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.
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Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines, and the rain rains for both the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.
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Every sweet has its sour every evil its good.
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Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.
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You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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