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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
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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Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.
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All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.
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If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.
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Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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The house praises the carpenter.
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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
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We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.
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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.
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Be a gift and a benediction.
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Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.
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Let us leave hurry to slaves.
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I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.
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