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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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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
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I covet truth beauty is unripe childhood's cheat I leave it behind with the games of youth.
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All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us in other words, to engage us to obey.
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Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?
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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
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My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.
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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
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Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.
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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
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The democrat is a young conservative the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.
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Manners are the happy ways of doing things each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
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The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it... -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Where there is no vision a people perish.
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Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
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Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.
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Nature is upheld by antagonism.
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The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.
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