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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.
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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.
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Great men exist that there might be greater men.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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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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Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
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Youth is everywhere in place.
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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.
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Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
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It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.
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A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.
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Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
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God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
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Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?
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