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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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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.
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How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.
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Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit friendship in possession.
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The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.
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Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.
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Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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