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Body cannot teach wisdom God only.
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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We change whether we like it or not.
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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
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Slavery it is that makes slavery freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
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The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
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My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!
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Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.
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No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.
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Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold?
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The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
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There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
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Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.
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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.
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Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.
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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking no church, for he is himself a prophet no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver no money, for he is value itself no road, for he is at home where he is.
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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Friendship is an order of nobility from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
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The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.
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