As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity. Friedrich Nietzsche thought he was "the most gifted of the Americans," and Walt Whitman called Emerson his "master".
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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