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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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Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.
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Life only avails, not the having lived.
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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, Are you victimizable?
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A man must know how to estimate a sour face. The sour face of the multitude, like thier sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and the newspaper directs.
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All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.
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Every advantage has its tax.
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Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.
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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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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
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The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
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To eat bread is one thing to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
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The only reward of virtue is virtue.
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Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.
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The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.
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The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.
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