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For he that feeds men serveth few He serves all who dares be true.
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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Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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An eminent teacher of girls said, the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.
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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
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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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My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
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