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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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Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.
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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.
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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking no church, for he is himself a prophet no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver no money, for he is value itself no road, for he is at home where he is.
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It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
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There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.
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Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
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Labor is God's education.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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A good indignation makes an excellent speech.
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American mind a wilderness of opportunities.
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A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
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All necessary truth is its own evidence.
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There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
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Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
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Man is a piece of the universe made alive
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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
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There is no architect Can build as the Muse can She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.
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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low for we musthave a society.
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