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All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
Biographer
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Essayist
Philosopher
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
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Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
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An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.
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There is properly no history, only biography.
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Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.
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I like man, but not men.
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Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
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What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy only the precursor of the reason.
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Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.
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We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.
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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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The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.
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Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.
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I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.
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In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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