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To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.
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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I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion one, fame, the other, desert one, feats, the other, humility one, lucre, the other, love one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.
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A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.
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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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Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.
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Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.
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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking no church, for he is himself a prophet no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver no money, for he is value itself no road, for he is at home where he is.
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Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.
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Friendship is an order of nobility from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
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I am a part and parcel of God.
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Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
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