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Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
- I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
- In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
- In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
- In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs.
- It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
- It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
- It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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