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Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
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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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.
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A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?
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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
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Other world? There is no other world here or nowhere is the whole fact.
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When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speech is better than silence silence is better than speech.
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As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.
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Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
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Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
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There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.
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Sorrow makes us all children again.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life has a way of demanding that you live it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The dice of God are always loaded.
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