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Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.
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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The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.
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Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.
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The value of a dollar is to buy just things a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.
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Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
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Ethics and religion differ herein that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God Ethics does not.
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I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.
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The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.
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There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.
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Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
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As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.
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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
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All science is transcendental or else passes away.
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