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Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
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
Waldo Emerson
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What we seek we shall find what we flee from flees from us.
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I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.
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Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.
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Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.
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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.
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Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.
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Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.
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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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For he that feeds men serveth few He serves all who dares be true.
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