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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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The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.
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If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
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Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not Devil's wine, but God's wine.
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Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.
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The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'
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Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
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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 are the prisoners of ideas.
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