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That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson - [Sin]
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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson - [Sincerity]
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Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson - [Sincerity]
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson - [Sky]
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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson - [Slavery]
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Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson - [Society]
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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson - [Society]
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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson - [Society]
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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson - [Society]
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Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson - [Solitude]
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson - [Solitude]
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The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson - [Sorrow]
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Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson - [Sorrow]
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