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Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.
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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When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
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The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.
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Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.
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The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.
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Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.
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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
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My doom and my strength is to be solitary.
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Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one Nothing is fair or good alone.
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We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.
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I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.
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There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.
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Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.
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The secret of success in education is respecting the students.
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Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.
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You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.
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I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.
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That man is idle who can do something better.
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Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.
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