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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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Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.
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The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.
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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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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
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A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast. Its fit hour oactivity is night its actions are insane, like its whole constitution.
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Money is of no value it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
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If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
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Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.
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Good criticism is very rare and always precious.
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Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.
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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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The first lesson of history is that evil is good.
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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking no church, for he is himself a prophet no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver no money, for he is value itself no road, for he is at home where he is.
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Our strength grows out of our weakness.
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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.
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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
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The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.
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