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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
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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Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.
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Every man believes he has a greater possibility.
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Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.
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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
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Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.
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Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.
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