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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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Boston
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
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Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first for example, a well-laid garden and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.
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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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Character teaches above our wills.
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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the state, the church, yea the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart. With so much awe, with so much fear, let it be respected.
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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
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The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.
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Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual
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The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.
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