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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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.
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Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.
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The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere only the low habits need palaces and banquets.
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It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.
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For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.
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