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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
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
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The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
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No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
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Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.
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Nothing is quite beautiful alone nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.
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If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.
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Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.
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Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.
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Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
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Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.
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The value of a dollar is to buy just things a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.
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