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A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
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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To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.
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So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves. Such a one has curculios, borers, knife-worms a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.
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Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.
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Solitary converse with nature for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!
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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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Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking no church, for he is himself a prophet no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver no money, for he is value itself no road, for he is at home where he is.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.
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Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
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Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.
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An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
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A friend is the hope of the heart.
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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.
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The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
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The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.
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