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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
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
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We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
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If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.
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Plant your DREAMS and miracles will grow.
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It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.
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Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
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The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.
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But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.
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Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.
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An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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