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People say law but they mean wealth.
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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Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.
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We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.
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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.
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Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
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We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
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I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.
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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
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The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
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Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.
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The universe is represented in every one of it's particles. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb.
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Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.
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Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
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Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.
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Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.
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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.
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Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.
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