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Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.
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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To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.
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He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
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If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.
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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
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People seem sheathed in their tough organization.
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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
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Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
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The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
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Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
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A man is a god in ruins.
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We are the prisoners of ideas.
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Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.
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Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.
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Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.
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No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.
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Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.
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An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.
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Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
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If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.
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