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The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
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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There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
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The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.
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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
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Friendship is an order of nobility from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
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He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.
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The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be.
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We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon.
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We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.
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It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.
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Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.
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I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.
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One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.
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Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.
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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
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Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
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I like man, but not men.
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Money is of no value it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
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