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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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Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
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Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.
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Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
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The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.
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The finest poetry was first experience.
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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.
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Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.
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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
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He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living.
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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.
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Money is of no value it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
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Necessity does everything well.
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We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.
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There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?
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What we call results are beginnings.
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The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
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I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.
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Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.
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Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.
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