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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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As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
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Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
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Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?
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Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry, and art.
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Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.
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That which builds is better than that which is built.
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Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?
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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.
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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.
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The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.
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