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Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
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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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.
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Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.
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Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
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Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.
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I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.
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Friendship is an order of nobility from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
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Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
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Man's life is a progress, not a station.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
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Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.
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Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.
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The democrat is a young conservative the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.
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Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
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Self-command is the main elegance.
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One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.
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Desire is possibility seeking expression.
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