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We expect a great man to be a good reader.
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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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief in denying them.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls.
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What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.
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Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.
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The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.
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If you cannot be free be as free as you can.
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The secret of success in education is respecting the students.
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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
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The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.
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And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.
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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.
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Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.
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