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There are some men above grief and some men below it.
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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I didn't find my friends the good Lord gave them to me.
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The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
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Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, the italics are ours.
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