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As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.
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's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
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First be a good animal.
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If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.
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For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
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If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.
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Blessed are those who have no talent!
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
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It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.
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The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares
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Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn
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All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength.
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The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.
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That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say even though we may repeat the words ever so often.
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Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?
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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
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It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.
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