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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
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
Waldo Emerson
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The eye is easily frightened.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.
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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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Activity is contagious.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
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I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.
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The shot heard round the world.
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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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Beauty rests on necessities.
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The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.
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No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.
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Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
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If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.
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Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings.
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The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.
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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
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Music is the poor man's Parnassus.
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