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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
Society
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
Sorrow
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sorrow makes us children again.
Sorrow
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
Eloquence
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
Preachers and Preaching
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
Trade
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is --Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
Trust
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
Virtue
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Honor
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
Teachers and Teaching
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.
Sorrow
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The walking of Man is falling forwards.
Progress
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
Law and Lawyers
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
Philanthropists
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.
Imagination
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
Strength
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is no knowledge that is not power.
Power
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
Thoughts and Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Time and Time Management
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Goals
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
America
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
Learning
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected
Friends and Friendship
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We walk alone in the world.
Solitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.
Thoughts and Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun