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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Friends and Friendship
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
Words
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Knowledge
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Knowledge
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Knowledge is the only elegance.
Knowledge
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Language
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Language is the archives of history.
Language
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
Wisdom
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.
Men and Women
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
Life and Living
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Live, let live, and help live
Life and Living
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Manners
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
Heaven
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
Purpose
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.
Wonder
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine
Adversity
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.
Mentors
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
Guests
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Fortune
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Never read any book that is not a year old.
Books - Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Character
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Greatness
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
Property
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