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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
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Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness--to love Him in others' virtues.
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.
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People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.
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Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn nature's oldest force is as good as new.
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The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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The beautiful is never plentiful.
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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.
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There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
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We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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