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All men are poets at heart.
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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The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.
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Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.
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Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.
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Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
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The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.
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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
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The virtue in most request is conformity.
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We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!
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What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.
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Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.
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The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.
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That which builds is better than that which is built.
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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
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Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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