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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.
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It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or
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Doing well is a result of doing good.
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Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.
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I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.
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All life is an experiment.
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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
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Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.
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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.
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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.
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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
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Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.
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Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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