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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
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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Everything runs to excess every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
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My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.
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After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.
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Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.
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Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.
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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
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In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.
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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
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A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.
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The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
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