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Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.
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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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
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The religions we call false were once true.
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Self-trust is the first secret of success.
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Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.
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Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?
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Blessed are those who have no talent!
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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To educate the wise man, the State exists and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.
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The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'
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He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.
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The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.
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America is a country of young men.
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