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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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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Housekeeping is not beautiful it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child neither the host nor the guestit oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.
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Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?
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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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Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.
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When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.
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No institution will be better than the institutor.
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Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.
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What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.
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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.
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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.
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Noblesse oblige or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.
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