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A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.
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
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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.
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Pride is handsome, economical pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.
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Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.
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The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.
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The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.
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Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.
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Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
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Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.
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Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.
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The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.
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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
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America means opportunity, freedom, power.
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The pest of society is egotists.
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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.
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