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Thou art to me a delicious torment.
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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We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.
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We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.
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Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.
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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
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Far or forgot to me is near Shadow and sunlight are the same The vanished gods to me appear And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out When me they fly, I am the wings I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
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All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us in other words, to engage us to obey.
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The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.
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There is always a best way of doing everything.
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To be great, you must be misunderstood
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The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.
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Activity is contagious.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
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Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.
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