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Every man is eloquent once in his life.
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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To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
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There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
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Conversation is a game of circles.
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Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.
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The borrower runs in his own debt.
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It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.
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There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.
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I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me.
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Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.
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Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.
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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.
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We fancy men are individuals so are pumpkins but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
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