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Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.
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 of no conversation should smoke.
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Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
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They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
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Manners are the happy ways of doing things each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
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Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
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Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?
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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.
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There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome alwayswe are invited to work.
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Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.
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A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
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The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
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Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.
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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
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You cannot make a cheap palace.
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One must be an inventor to read well.
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We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.
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I honor health as the first Muse.
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All mankind love a lover.
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Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast the first a handful.
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Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.
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