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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
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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When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.
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Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?
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The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
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Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.
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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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There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.
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Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.
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The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.
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We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
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Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.
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Every man is a new method.
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If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.
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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
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I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.
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For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.
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If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines, and the rain rains for both the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.
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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
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