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In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful
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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I honor health as the first Muse.
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Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.
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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.
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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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Money is of no value it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
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Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.
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When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.
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A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
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Adult males are what their moms designed them.
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Society is the stage on which manners are shown novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.
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There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.
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