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All my hurts my garden spade can heal.
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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If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.
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Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.
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Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, Are you victimizable?
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The health of the eye demands a horizon.
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Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
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A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.
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Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.
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Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
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Every time you wink the stars move.
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My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeinga Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
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Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.
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The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.
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The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.
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Society, to be sure, does not like this very well it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world he declares all to be unfit to be his companions it is very uncivil, nay, insulting Society will retaliate.
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When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.
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Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.
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Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.
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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
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