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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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I didn't find my friends the good Lord gave them to me.
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The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.
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The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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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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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.
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As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.
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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.
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The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.
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No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.
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Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.
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The world is his who can see through its pretension.
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The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.
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The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.
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As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.
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Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature. The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no skepticism, no atheism but that. Could it be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.
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Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.
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It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.
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Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.
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