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I quote another man's saying unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.
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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It is never too late to do right.
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men in their religion in their education in their pursuits their modes of living their association in their property in their speculative views.
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Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?
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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
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Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?
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The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.
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Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less I have more clothes, but am nit so warm more armor, but less courage more books, but less wit.
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No institution will be better than the institutor.
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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
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Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
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It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.
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Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares
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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.
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Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.
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The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
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A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.
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