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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
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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For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
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The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves the man is lost.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.
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We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.
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Friendship is an order of nobility from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
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The world exists for the education of each man.
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We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.
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Nature is the symbol of Spirit.
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Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
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The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.
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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
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There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
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Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.
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