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The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought
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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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.
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Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.
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One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.
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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
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Love, and you shall be loved.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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In England every man you meet is some man's son in America, he may be some man's father.
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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.
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I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.
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Everything runs to excess every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.
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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.
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Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit
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Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.
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The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.
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