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A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.
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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Sorrow makes us all children again.
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Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.
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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
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We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.
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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
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Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.
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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
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