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- Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Natural History of Intellect (1893)
- As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Society and Solitude (1870)
- Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), New England Reformers, 1844
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