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All promise outruns performance.
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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.
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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.
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Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.
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The best nations are those most widely related and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.
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We pass for what we are.
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By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.
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The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.
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Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
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Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.
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The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.
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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.
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When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.
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A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
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Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.
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Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
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A day is a miniature eternity.
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