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Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.
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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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
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As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls.
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I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.
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The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.
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The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.
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The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.
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