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- Ralph Waldo Emerson: American poet and philosopher
- Harry Emerson Fosdick: American minister
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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
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A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.
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'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
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Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
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All the great speakers were bad speaker at first.
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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.
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Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
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Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
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