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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
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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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
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The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.
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The end of being is to know and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.
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True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.
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Ethics and religion differ herein that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God Ethics does not.
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What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.
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Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.
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As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
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Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.
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Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.
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