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The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
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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So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves. Such a one has curculios, borers, knife-worms a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.
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All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
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I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.
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We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.
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No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.
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He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.
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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
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Accept your genius and say what you think.
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Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.
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All the great ages have been ages of belief.
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