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The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.
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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In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.
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He is great who confers the most benefits.
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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its end which stands related to all things which is the mean of many extremes.
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Skepticism is slow suicide.
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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
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We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.
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Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
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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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Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.
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If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.
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But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.
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No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
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When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.
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Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.
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Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
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