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I like man, but not 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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
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Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.
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Good criticism is very rare and always precious.
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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
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[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.
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Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
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Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.
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A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time
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Do your thing, and I shall know you.
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An eminent teacher of girls said, the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.
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Invention breeds invention.
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The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.
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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
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