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Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.
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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Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.
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Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.
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Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?
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Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.
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I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.
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Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.
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The surest poison is time.
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There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.
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The world is his who can see through its pretension.
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Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
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The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.
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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.
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Almost every man we meet requires some civility requires to be humored - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.
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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.
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