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The first lesson of history is that evil is good.
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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The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history. For a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.
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Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.
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Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.
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For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream neither is it a disease but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.
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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
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As we are, so we do and as we do, so is it done to us we are the builders of our fortunes.
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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
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Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.
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Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
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Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
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It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.
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A man should give us a sense of mass.
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The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
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Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.
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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
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Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.
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All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.
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