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Every word was once a poem.
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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
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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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Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
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Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less I have more clothes, but am nit so warm more armor, but less courage more books, but less wit.
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Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
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He is great who confers the most benefits.
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Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.
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When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.
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When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits, on his manhood he has gained facts learns his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.
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I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
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The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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