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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.
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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
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Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.
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Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.
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It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.
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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
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Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.
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From Washington, proverbially the city of distances, through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.
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We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
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Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.
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Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.
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Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
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I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.
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Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
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