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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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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A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is simply the rose it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
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What a new face courage puts on everything!
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The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
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Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.
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Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
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Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.
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Desire is possibility seeking expression.
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The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.
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It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
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Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought for causes which are unpenetrated.
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It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.
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Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.
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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
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Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.
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He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.
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Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn
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