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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love With bandaged eyes he never errs, Around, below, above. His blinding light He flingeth white On God's and Satan's brood, And reconciles By mystic wiles The evil and the good.
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Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.
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Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.
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The world exists for the education of each man.
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Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.
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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
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All necessary truth is its own evidence.
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A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.
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It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.
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It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.
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What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.
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He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
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The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
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Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
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Rude poets of the tavern hearth, squandering your unquoted mirth, which keeps the ground, and never soars, while jake retorts, and reuben roars tough and screaming, as birch-bark, goes like bullet to its mark while the solid curse and jeer never balk the waiting ear.
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All men are poets at heart.
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