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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
Waldo Emerson
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One of our statesmen said, The curse of this country is eloquent men.
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It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere
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Happy is the hearing man unhappy the speaking man.
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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
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The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
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For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.
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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
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Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All
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The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.
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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
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