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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
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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Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.
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Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.
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The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.
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Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.
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Labor is God's education.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.
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What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
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Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
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The universe is represented in every one of it's particles. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb.
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
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A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life.
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Thou art to me a delicious torment.
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Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
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So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the Chancellors of God.
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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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