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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
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Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.
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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
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All the world loves a lover.
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It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.
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The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth it is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
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Who loses a day loses life.
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The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
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Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
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