The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

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About Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 April 1882) was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet.

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Alternative Names: R. W. Emerson • Waldo Emerson
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Every really able man, in whatever direction he work,—a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,—if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.
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