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The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.
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
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A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.
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Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.
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If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
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Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.
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Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.
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In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt.
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The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
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I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me.
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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
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