American - Poet | May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
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