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Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.
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A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.
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Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
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People seem sheathed in their tough organization.
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I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.
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The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
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Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
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The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.
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Conformity is the ape of harmony.
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Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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