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It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.
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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Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.
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Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.
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Every word was once a poem.
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Desire is possibility seeking expression.
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Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.
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If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
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I think no virtue goes with size.
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If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument
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How much finer things are in composition than alone.
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The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
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To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men.
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There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
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We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
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There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.
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Ability without honor has no value.
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The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.
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