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Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
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
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In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.
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I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
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Every great man is unique.
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This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
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But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.
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There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.
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What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
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There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
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Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.
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We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.
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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
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Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
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The eye is the best of artists.
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The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.
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For he that feeds men serveth few He serves all who dares be true.
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The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.
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Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.
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All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.
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The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.
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