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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us
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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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Nature hates calculators.
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The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'
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The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.
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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
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Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.
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We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.
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Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.
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All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.
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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
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I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.
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Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.
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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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And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
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Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
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Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?
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Desire is possibility seeking expression.
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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
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