Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Class Quotes

I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

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As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

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Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

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Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored

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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

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Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

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If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.

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Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

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Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

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The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

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All the devils respect virtue.

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

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Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.

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Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

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If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

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No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

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All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

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A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

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