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We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
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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Fractures well cured make us more strong.
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The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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All the world loves a lover.
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The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.
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Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?
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In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.
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There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.
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[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.
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Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.
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Eyes...They speak all languages.
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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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