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Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
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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We walk alone in the world.
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There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.
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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
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Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.
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O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
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We can only obey our own polarity.
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Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.
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We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.
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The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.
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What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?
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It is time to be old To take in sail.
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A man must know how to estimate a sour face. The sour face of the multitude, like thier sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and the newspaper directs.
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The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.
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Our life seems not present, so much as prospective not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.
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The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.
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The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.
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I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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