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Nature encourages no looseness pardons no errors.
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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Money is of no value it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
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All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.
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Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
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Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
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If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?
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Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.
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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief in denying them.
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Speak the affirmative emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
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There is one mind common to all individual men
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The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.
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The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.
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