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A forte always makes a foible.
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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By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.
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Great men exist that there might be greater men.
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Speech is better than silence silence is better than speech.
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If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
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Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior...
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War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.
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Popularity is for dolls.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!
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The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.
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There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.
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In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt.
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For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.
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The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.
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Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.
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Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
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