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A little integrity is better than any career.
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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If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.
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The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
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Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
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Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.
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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
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By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Ability without honor has no value.
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The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.
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The world is nothing, the man is all in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
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The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music everyone, To the cadence of the whirling world Which dances around the sun- That so they shall not be displaced By lapses or by wars, But for the love of happy souls Outlive the newest stars.
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The eye is the first circle the horizon which it forms is the second and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
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Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
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Every man is grave alone.
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Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.
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You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.
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