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Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

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Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 25th, 1803

Died: April 27th, 1882

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