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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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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Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.
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That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose.
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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.
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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
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Manners are the happy ways of doing things each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
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Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes what a satire this is on government.
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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
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There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are a transfusion takes place he is you, and you are he then is a teaching and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.
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The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.
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What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.
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The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.
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When the gods come among men, they are not known.
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Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
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Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.
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