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Meek young men grow up in libraries.
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
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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As we are, so we do and as we do, so is it done to us we are the builders of our fortunes.
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The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.
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See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
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There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all.
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Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.
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Invention breeds invention.
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Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.
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We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
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I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence andgood will at the heart of all things, and even higher and yet higher leadings. These are my engagements how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men?
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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
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I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.
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Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.
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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.
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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.
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Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.
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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
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