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That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose.
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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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
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One thing is forever good That one thing is Success.
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Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
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You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.
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The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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