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Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know

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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The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
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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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a good reader makes a good book
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Every day, the sun and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him?
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Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.
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There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.
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Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
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Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.
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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.
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Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.
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Speak the affirmative emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
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The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.
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What we seek we shall find what we flee from flees from us.
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Every man believes he has a greater possibility.
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