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We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.
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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Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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The secret of success in education is respecting the students.
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Our thinking is a pious reception.
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The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.
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People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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