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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
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 know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.
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Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.
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Books are the best of things if well used if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
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The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
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Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.
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Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.
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It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.
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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the state, the church, yea the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart. With so much awe, with so much fear, let it be respected.
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All men are poets at heart.
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There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.
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There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.
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He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.
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The world exists for the education of each man.
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How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself when he loses himself in the crowd when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.
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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
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The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be.
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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
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You can take better care of your secret than another can.
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He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread
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I didn't find my friends the good Lord gave them to me.
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