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Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.
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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Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.
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Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
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Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.
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The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.
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To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.
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No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.
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Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.
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There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!
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Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.
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And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!
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