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We never touch but at points.
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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
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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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Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
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Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.
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Calmness is always godlike.
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Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker
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I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.
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The population of the world is a conditional population these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live there shall be a better, please God.
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The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
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In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.
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Do your work, but do your thing.
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Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.
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Skepticism is slow suicide.
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If the race is good, so is the place.
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Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.
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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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Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.
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