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Men are what their mothers made them.
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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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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In dreams we are true poets we create the persons of the drama we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours and we listen with surprise to what they say.
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Thou art to me a delicious torment.
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The highest Beauty should be plain set.
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Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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Do what you're afraid to do.
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it at any rate, brag.
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This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
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Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
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For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they go for nothing are of no use in the farm, in the forest, in the market, in war, in the nuptial society, in the literary or scientific circle, at sea, in friendship, in the heaven of thought or virtue.
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Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.
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Intemperance is the only vulgarity.
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I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.
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Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.
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A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.
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