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Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.

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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
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When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
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Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
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The primary wisdom is intuition.
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Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
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He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.
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All the devils respect virtue.
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The world is his who has money to go over it.
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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument
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Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.
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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.
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The borrower runs in his own debt.
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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.
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The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.
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It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.
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