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The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.
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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Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.
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Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.
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Ability without honor has no value.
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Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
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A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.
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It is a capital blunder as you discover, when another man recites his charities.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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