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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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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
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Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.
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When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.
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In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.
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Wise men are not wise at all times.
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In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.
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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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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
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Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.
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Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.
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The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.
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Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.
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