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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
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Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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Humility is the secret of the wise.
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The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.
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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.
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Let there be worse cotton and better men.
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There is no architect Can build as the Muse can She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.
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The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.
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Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.
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Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
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Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
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Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.
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We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.
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There is always safety in valor.
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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
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Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.
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Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.
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Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm and number But, leaving rule and pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. Pass in, pass in, the angels say
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Power educates the potentate.
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