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Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
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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Let us leave hurry to slaves.
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Almost every man we meet requires some civility requires to be humored - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.
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It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.
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If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.
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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
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Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
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Thou art to me a delicious torment.
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We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.
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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.
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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.
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When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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Work and thou canst escape the reward whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.
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Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.
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The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.
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Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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