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The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.
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 next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
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I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.
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Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
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Society, to be sure, does not like this very well it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world he declares all to be unfit to be his companions it is very uncivil, nay, insulting Society will retaliate.
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Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.
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What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.
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Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark
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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.
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Life only avails, not the having lived.
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We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
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The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.
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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
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But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
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Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
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Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.
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The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones they are what they are they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
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Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
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I like people who like Plato.
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There is always a best way of doing everything.
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