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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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When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
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A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.
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The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.
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The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
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Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.
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Beauty through my senses stole I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
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First be a good animal.
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Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
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Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.
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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
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Line in Nature is not found Unit and Universe are round.
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