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The best political economy is the care and culture of men for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.
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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Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
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If you act, you show character if you sit still, you show it if you sleep you show it.
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.
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All necessary truth is its own evidence.
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All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.
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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, Are you victimizable?
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Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.
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There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
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The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
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Every sweet has its sour every evil its good.
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The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.
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