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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
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
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The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.
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Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.
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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
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We put our love where we have put our labor.
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I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
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He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
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The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.
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We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.
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A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.
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The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.
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When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.
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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
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Knowledge is the only elegance.
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I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten even so, they have made me.
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The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.
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God will not make himself manifest to cowards
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