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Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
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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Wealth is in applications of mind to nature and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. . Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.
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I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
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No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
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Doing well is a result of doing good.
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Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
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Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.
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In imitation is a bit suicide.
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He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
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Where there is no vision a people perish.
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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
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The surest poison is time.
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Life is in short cycles or periods we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate he will not lift his hand to save his life he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.
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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
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This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
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The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
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