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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
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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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
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No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.
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Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.
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Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.
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We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.
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Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.
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If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?
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He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.
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I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken that act or step is the spiritual act all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.
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Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.
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Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.
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