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Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.
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 end of being is to know and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.
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What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?
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My life should be unique it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
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I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.
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There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.
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The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
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We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.
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I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.
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Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore.
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If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.
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How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
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A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.
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