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Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
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 man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac a talent for debate, disputant skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.
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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
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We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
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Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.
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There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.
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Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.
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I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.
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Pride eradicates all vices but itself.
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When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
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Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.
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Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.
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Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes what a satire this is on government.
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[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.
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When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.
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I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.
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