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Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
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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And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.
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Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not Devil's wine, but God's wine.
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I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.
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Happy is the hearing man unhappy the speaking man.
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He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living.
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The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.
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Housekeeping is not beautiful it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child neither the host nor the guestit oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
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Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.
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Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.
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The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire But over the dead he has no power, The lost, the lost, he cannot restore And, looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return.
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Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
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Eyes...They speak all languages.
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There is no architect Can build as the Muse can She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.
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The best part of health is fine disposition
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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
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The life of man is a self-evolving circle.
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In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.
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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
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Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.
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That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose.
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