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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
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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Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.
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Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.
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Activity is contagious.
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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.
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The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
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Do your work, but do your thing.
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Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.
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This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
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Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.
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The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.
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In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
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Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.
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