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Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.
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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Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.
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There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
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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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Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.
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In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.
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Friendship is an order of nobility from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
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Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.
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Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.
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The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.
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Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
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Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
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Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.
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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
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The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.
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Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.
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