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The dearest events are summer-rain.
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
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The city is recruited from the country.
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Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?
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As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.
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Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
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One thing is forever good That one thing is Success.
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Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.
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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
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A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.
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Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.
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