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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
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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It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.
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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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Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
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A day is a miniature eternity.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
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Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
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People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.
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If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
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We change whether we like it or not.
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If you cannot be free be as free as you can.
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An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye it transcends speech it is the bodily symbol of identity.
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The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
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Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
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The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.
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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
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Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.
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There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.
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