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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
...too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
The house praises the carpenter.
Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.
There never was child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops,-no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.
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