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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Only the great generalizations survive.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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