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I think no virtue goes with size.
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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There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.
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The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
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In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.
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The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.
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The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
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Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!
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The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.
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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us
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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.
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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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No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.
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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
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I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.
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A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.
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I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.
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The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.
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Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.
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Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings.
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