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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
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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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.
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Let there be worse cotton and better men.
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Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
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Friendship is an order of nobility from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
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But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.
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I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.
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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
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The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
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Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.
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The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.
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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its end which stands related to all things which is the mean of many extremes.
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Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.
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In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.
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