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One of our statesmen said, The curse of this country is eloquent men.
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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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
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In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.
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A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.
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There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
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Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
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The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.
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The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
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But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
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The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.
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When the gods come among men, they are not known.
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All the great ages have been ages of belief.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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