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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
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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Thou art to me a delicious torment.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
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Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.
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I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.
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What we call results are beginnings.
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With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world, and becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian, than with persons in the house.
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The value of a dollar is to buy just things a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.
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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.
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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
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All the great ages have been ages of belief.
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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.
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I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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