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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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More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.
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The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.
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Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.
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The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.
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If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.
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I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
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What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?
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Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window if heavy, it will obscure the light.
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We cannot let our angels go we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.
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You think me the child of circumstance I make my circumstance.
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A man cannot speak but he judges himself
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Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.
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We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.
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Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.
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So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the Chancellors of God.
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To Be is to live with God.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space.
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Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
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The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.
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