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Reality is a sliding door.
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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Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
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If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.
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The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.
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The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.
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The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.
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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.
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Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.
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A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.
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Every sweet has its sour every evil its good.
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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.
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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.
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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
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As we are, so we do and as we do, so is it done to us we are the builders of our fortunes.
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Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
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