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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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.
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The State is our neighbors our neighbors are the State.
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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
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The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.
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The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
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Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.
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We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
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Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
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Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members
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