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Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.
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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Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
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I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?
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There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.
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Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.
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If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.
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Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.
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An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.
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Where there is no vision a people perish.
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The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
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There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.
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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
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The laws of light and of heat translate each other-so do the laws of sound and colour and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.
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The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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Every man believes he has a greater possibility.
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