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Our distrust is very expensive.
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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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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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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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The hero is he who is immovably centered.
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Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.
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We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.
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God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.
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Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.
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Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.
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Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.
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The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
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Ability without honor has no value.
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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
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The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.
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But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.
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There is always safety in valor.
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Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.
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