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Wise men are not wise at all times.
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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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
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We never touch but at points.
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Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.
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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
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Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, Are you victimizable?
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Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
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Every wall is a door.
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The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be.
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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us
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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
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