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Do your work, but do your thing.
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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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
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We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!
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I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.
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Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function living is the functionary.
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We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them
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Life has a way of demanding that you live it.
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A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.
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If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
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The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.
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Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief in denying them.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.
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Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.
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Popularity is for dolls.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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