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A man of no conversation should smoke.
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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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
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What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.
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Thou art to me a delicious torment.
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With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.
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But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
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A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.
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It is time to be old To take in sail.
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