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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.
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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Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.
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Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.
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The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
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Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
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I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
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In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
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We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
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Every stoic was a stoic but in Christendom where is the Christian?
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The population of the world is a conditional population these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live there shall be a better, please God.
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Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.
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The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community
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Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.
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Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
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We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
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Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.
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Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All
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When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
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