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Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.
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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Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.
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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
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Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.
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Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.
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Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.
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Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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All ages of belief have been great all of unbelief have been mean.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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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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There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.
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Nature encourages no looseness pardons no errors.
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Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
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