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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
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
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One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.
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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
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All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.
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Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.
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The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
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The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes what a satire this is on government.
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Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear and you shall never find that perception again never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds my lie between you and its return.
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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
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Every reform was once a private opinion.
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What a new face courage puts on everything!
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The best of life is conversation.
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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
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I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.
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It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or
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The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
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