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The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.
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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Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
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It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.
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What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.
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Line in Nature is not found Unit and Universe are round.
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God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
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A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.
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In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.
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Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
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For flowers that bloom about our feet For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet For song of bird, and hum of bee For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
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The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
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Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.
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A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat self-control is the rule.
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
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The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
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Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
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The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.
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