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You cannot do a kindness too soon.
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 compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.
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But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.
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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
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Frankness invites frankness.
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Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.
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Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.
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All the devils respect virtue.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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What we seek we shall find what we flee from flees from us.
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Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
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The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.
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The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.
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They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
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We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?
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Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.
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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
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We read often with as much talent as we write.
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