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Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.
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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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
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The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.
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The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.
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The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
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The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.
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When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.
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I honor health as the first Muse.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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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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Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.
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The gentleman is a man of truth.
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It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.
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I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.
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A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.
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A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.
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Quotation confesses inferiority.
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Far or forgot to me is near Shadow and sunlight are the same The vanished gods to me appear And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out When me they fly, I am the wings I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
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The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.
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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
