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Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold?
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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When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.
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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
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Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!
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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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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
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True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.
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Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
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The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
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