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No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.
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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Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.
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Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.
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God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.
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Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings.
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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins
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A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must but coop up most men and you undo them.
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Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
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The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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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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But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.
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The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.
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A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.
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Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.
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There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
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It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere
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The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
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See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
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And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
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