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Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.
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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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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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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It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.
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The surest poison is time.
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That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.
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The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
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Every man is a new method.
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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
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There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
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Art is a jealous mistress and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
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We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.
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All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.
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