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That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say even though we may repeat the words ever so often.
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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.
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Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.
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A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.
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If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.
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Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.
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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.
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Every man is a new method.
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Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings.
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The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.
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The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.
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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.
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Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker
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The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.
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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.
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