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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
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I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.
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There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
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It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.
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In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.
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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
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Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.
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There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.
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I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.
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There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.
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If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.
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The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'
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The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, All summer in the field, and all winter in the study. And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.
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Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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Life is too short to waste.
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Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.
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Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
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There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
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Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.
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