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The picture waits for my verdict it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.
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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.
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We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.
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The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.
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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
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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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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
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A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.
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The eye is the first circle the horizon which it forms is the second and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
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