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Desire is possibility seeking expression.
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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Boston
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.
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The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
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Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
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But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.
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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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Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.
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All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.
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Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
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Speech is better than silence silence is better than speech.
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But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
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Speak the affirmative emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
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In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.
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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.
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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
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Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
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Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.
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Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.
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I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.
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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 itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.
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