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If The Aristocrat Is Only Valid In Fashionable Circles, And Not With Truckmen, He Will Never Be A Leader In Fashion; And If The Man Of The People Cannot Speak On Equal Terms With The Gentleman, So That The Gentleman Shall Perceive That He Is Already Really Of His Own Order, He Is Not To Be Feared.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If The Aristocrat Is

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If The Aristocrat Is Only Valid In Fashionable Circles, And Not With Truckmen, He Will Never Be A Leader In Fashion; And If The Man Of The People Cannot Speak On Equal Terms With The Gentleman, So That The Gentleman Shall Perceive That He Is Already Really Of His Own Order, He Is Not To Be Feared.

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A Beautiful Soul Always Dwells In A Beautiful World.

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God Is Our Name For The Last Generalization To Which We Can Arrive.

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Taking To Pieces Is The Trade Of Those Who Cannot Construct.

Thou Art To Me A Delicious Torment.

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Friendship Is An Order Of Nobility; From Its Revelations We Come More Worthily Into Nature.

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The Hearing Ear Is Always Found Close To The Speaking Tongue.

Everything In Our World, Even A Drop Of Dew, Is A Microcosm Of The Universe.

We All Wish To Be Of Importance In One Way Or Another. The Child Coughs With Might And Main, Since It Has No Other Claim On The Company.

Nature Never Sends A Great Man Into The Planet, Without Confiding The Secret To Another Soul.

I Ought To Go Upright And Vital, And Speak The Rude Truth In All Ways.

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Accept Your Genius And Say What You Think.

Is The Acorn Better Than The Oak Which Is Its Fullness And Completion?

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Every Ship Is A Romantic Object, Except That We Sail In.

It Behooves Us To Be Careful What We Worship, For What We Are Worshipping We Are Becoming.

The End Of Being Is To Know; And If You Say, The End Of Knowledge Is Action,-why, Yes, But The End Of That Action Again, Is Knowledge.

Pines A Thousand Years Old. Every Year They Must Go Farther For Them: They Recede, Like Beavers And Indians, Before The White Man.

Beauty Without Expression Is Boring.

We Lie In The Lap Of Immense Intelligence, Which Makes Us Receivers Of Its Truth And Organ Of Its Activity. When We Discern Justice, When We Discern Truth, We Do Nothing By Ourselves, But Allow A Passage To Its Beams. If We Ask Whence This Comes, If We Seek To Pry Into The Soul That Causes, All Philosophy Is At Fault. Its Presence Or Its Absence Is All We Can Affirm.

As Picture Teaches The Colouring, So Sculpture The Anatomy Of Form.

It Is God In You That Responds To God Without, Or Affirms His Own Words Trembling On The Lips Of Another.

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Love Is The Bright Foreigner, The Foreign Self.

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Valor Consists In The Power Of Self Recovery.

Every Revolution Was First A Thought In One Man's Mind; And When The Same Thought Occurs To Another Man, It Is The Key To That Era.

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Freedom Is Not The Right To Do As You Please, But The Liberty To Do As You Should.

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A Judge May Be A Farmer; But He Is Not To Geld His Own Pigs.

Our People Are Slow To Learn The Wisdom Of Sending Character Instead Of Talent To Congress. Again And Again They Have Sent A Man Of Great Acuteness, A Fine Scholar, A Fine Forensic Orator, And Some Master Of The Brawls Has Crunched Him Up In His Hands Like A Bit Of Paper.

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Do The Thing And You Will Have The Power.

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I Give You Joy Of Your Free And Brave Thought. I Have Great Joy In It. I Find Incomparable Things Said Incomparably Well, As They Must Be. I Find The Courage Of Treatment Which So Delights Us, And Which Large Perception Only Can Inspire.

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A Few Years Ago, The Liberal Churches Complained That The Calvinistic Church Denied To Them The Name Of Christian. I Think The Complaint Was Confession; A Religious Church Would Not Complain.

Happy The Man Who Never Puts On A Face, But Receives Every Visitor With That Countenance He Has On.

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Things Have Their Laws As Well As Men, And Things Refuse To Be Trifled With.

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Our Statute Is A Currency Which We Stamp With Our Own Portrait.

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