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Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.
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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To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.
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I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.
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A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.
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First be a good animal.
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Nothing is quite beautiful alone nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.
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When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
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Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.
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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.
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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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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.
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Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
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Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature encourages no looseness pardons no errors.
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