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A man is a god in ruins.
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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Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
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Society, to be sure, does not like this very well it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world he declares all to be unfit to be his companions it is very uncivil, nay, insulting Society will retaliate.
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For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.
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People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
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See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
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For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
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Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?
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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
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A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.
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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.
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Art is a jealous mistress and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
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The world is the ring of his spells, And the play of his miracles.
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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
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Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us country folk, and we do not think any good will come of it. We have not dollars merchants have let them give them. Farmers will give corn poets will sing women will sew laborers will lend a hand the children will bring flowers.
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If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.
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