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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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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In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.
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The order of things consents to virtue.
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Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.
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To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.
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If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.
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Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.
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Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
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Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them they will never forget it.
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Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.
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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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