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Thought makes everything fit for use.
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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The only reward of virtue is virtue.
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Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.
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The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.
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The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.
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The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal, are also demonstrations of the self-sufficing, and therefore self-relying soul. All history from its highest to its trivial passages is the various record of this power.
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The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.
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The world is his who has money to go over it.
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A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.
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All promise outruns performance.
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Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.
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The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.
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True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.
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The primary wisdom is intuition.
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We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.
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When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together.
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Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!
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Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.
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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
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Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.
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Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.
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