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Power is the first good.
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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Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.
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The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.
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We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.
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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking no church, for he is himself a prophet no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver no money, for he is value itself no road, for he is at home where he is.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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Youth is everywhere in place.
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The health of the eye demands a horizon.
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The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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The gentleman is a man of truth.
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The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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Frankness invites frankness.
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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.
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All things are moral and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.
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