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The gentleman is a man of truth.
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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People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.
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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.
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A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures it is the finest of fine arts.
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Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.
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How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unraveled, nor shown.
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There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
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When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.
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