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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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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.
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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.
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All men are poets at heart.
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Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.
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The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.
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Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.
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Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
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Eyes...They speak all languages.
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When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
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The first wealth is health.
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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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Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
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Love, and you shall be loved.
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As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.
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You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.
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But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.
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