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It is a capital blunder as you discover, when another man recites his charities.
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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We are the prisoners of ideas.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.
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Money is of no value it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
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What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.
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There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.
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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.
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Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
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Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon flat and weak negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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