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Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.
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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What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?
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The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.
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The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.
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Love is like wildflowers It's often found in the most unlikely places.
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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
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We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
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A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
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Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness--to love Him in others' virtues.
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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
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The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things.
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Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
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