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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
Waldo Emerson
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Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
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Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.
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All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration out there in history we can see its fatal strength.
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Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.
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Every action has an ancestor of a thought.
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Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
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The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon.
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The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.
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In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.
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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
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I didn't find my friends the good Lord gave them to me.
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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.
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Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.
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What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.
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The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.
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Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
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Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto
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