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Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
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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What a new face courage puts on everything!
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He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.
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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.
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It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.
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Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.
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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
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Quotation confesses inferiority.
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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.
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What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.
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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
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If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.
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The hero is he who is immovably centered.
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Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.
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Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
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What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.
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I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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