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Art is a jealous mistress.
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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Let there be worse cotton and better men.
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The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
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The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
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The virtue in most request is conformity.
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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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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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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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Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.
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The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
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If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.
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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.
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