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It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.
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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A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.
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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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Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.
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Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.
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A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.
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But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
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God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
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Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.
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