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Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker
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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It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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Literature is eavesdropping.
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A day is a miniature eternity.
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A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
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Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.
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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
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Art is a jealous mistress and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
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The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.
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You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.
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We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.
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Desire is possibility seeking expression.
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My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeinga Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.
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Ethics and religion differ herein that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God Ethics does not.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.
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Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
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I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.
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With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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