People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The years teach much which the days never know.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others, and this is a gift interred only by the self.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Trust people and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men are what their mothers made them.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Conversation is an art in which a person has all humanity for their competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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