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Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
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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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.
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Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.
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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
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Far or forgot to me is near Shadow and sunlight are the same The vanished gods to me appear And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out When me they fly, I am the wings I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
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Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.
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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
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He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation but he shuts the door of truth.
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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
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Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.
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He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves
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Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
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The virtue in most request is conformity.
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We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.
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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
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