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Wise men are not wise at all times.
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 aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments.
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We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.
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A day is a miniature eternity.
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There is simply the rose it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
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Love is like wildflowers It's often found in the most unlikely places.
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Eyes...They speak all languages.
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Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.
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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
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Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
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Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.
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I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.
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Every wall is a door.
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How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.
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I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.
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