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The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.
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 day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
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An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.
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The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.
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Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.
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What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
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The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.
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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
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