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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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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
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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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Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
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We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.
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All men are poets at heart.
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We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
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The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone) and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.
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The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.
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Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.
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Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.
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Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
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There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
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Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.
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If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.
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Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.
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If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
