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The first wealth is health.
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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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.
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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
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One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
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Every reform was once a private opinion.
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There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.
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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.
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It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.
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If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.
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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
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The best of life is conversation.
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Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.
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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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Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
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Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.
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I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls.
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How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.
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The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
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