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Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.
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 terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.
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Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.
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So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves. Such a one has curculios, borers, knife-worms a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.
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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
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Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.
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That man is idle who can do something better.
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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
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