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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."	Honor
"As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker."	Beauty
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."	Friendship
"God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both."	Truth & Lies
"God enters by a private door into every individual."	God
"A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before."	Courage
"Our best thoughts come from others."	Thinking
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary person, but he is braver five minutes longer."	Courage
"Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks."	Nature
"Men are what their mothers made them."	Family
"Courage consists in the power of self-recovery."	Courage
"I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it."	Miscellaneous
"We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes."	Beauty
"Life is a festival only to the wise."	Life & Death, Wisdom
"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing."	Education
"The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose."	Thinking
"Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant."	Art
"United States! Go put your creed into your deed."	America

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