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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best efforts...
The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Some thoughts always...
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal...
The only gift...
The only gift is a portion of thyself. . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. ....
The art of...
The art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being...
Shall we then...
Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate...
The colleges, while...
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much...
Sunday is the...
Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.
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The poisons are...
The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.
The compensations of...
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of...
Sincerity is the...
Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay.
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The course of...
The course of everything goes to teach us faith.
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Talent finds its...
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to...
The power of...
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
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The end of...
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Sincerity is the...
Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. . . . Every man alone is...
The crowning fortune...
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to...
That man is...
That man is idle who can do something better.
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The power which...
The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know...
The first thing...
The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of...
Society is infested...
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we...