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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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R. W. Emerson
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All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.
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The first wealth is health.
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If you cannot be free be as free as you can.
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I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.
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So far as a person thinks they are free.
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I didn't find my friends the good Lord gave them to me.
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The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.
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I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.
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Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
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The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.
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Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.
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He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.
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What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.
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The only prudence in life is concentration.
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No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.
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