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Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.
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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Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.
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I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
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Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle everything else is an intrigue.
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Sorrow makes us all children again.
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Power ceases in the instant of repose it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.
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The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.
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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten even so, they have made me.
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The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.
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The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.
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