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Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.
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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For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
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Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.
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As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.
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I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.
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When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
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Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry, and art.
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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.
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The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.
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Fractures well cured make us more strong.
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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
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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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A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.
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It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
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He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
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