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We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.
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 best of life is conversation.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.
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To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved time, which keeps her from him, is his chest the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament
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Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.
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Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.
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A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.
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