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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
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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Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
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Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.
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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.
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The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith
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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.
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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.
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We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.
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We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.
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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
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The end of being is to know and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.
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The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.
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I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.
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Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.
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The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.
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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
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Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.
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Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.
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A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.
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