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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
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Ethics and religion differ herein that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God Ethics does not.
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Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.
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Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.
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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
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The eye is easily frightened.
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Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.
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The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.
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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
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I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.
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To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.
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No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
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Every word was once a poem.
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Power ceases in the instant of repose it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding
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I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.
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Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see the world is full.
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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
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