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All diseases run into one, old age.
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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The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.
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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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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
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Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.
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Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking no church, for he is himself a prophet no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver no money, for he is value itself no road, for he is at home where he is.
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.
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The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.
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If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.
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Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
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