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Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.
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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A man must know how to estimate a sour face. The sour face of the multitude, like thier sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and the newspaper directs.
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Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
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The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.
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Conformity is the ape of harmony.
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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
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Love, and you shall be loved.
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Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?
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Our strength grows out of our weakness.
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Character is that which can do without success.
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Language is the archives of history.
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But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
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