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I think all men know better than they do know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles but they darenot trust their presentiments.
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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If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
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I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.
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As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.
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Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
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He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.
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A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
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Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.
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How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.
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A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life.
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
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