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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
Waldo Emerson
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In dreams we are true poets we create the persons of the drama we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours and we listen with surprise to what they say.
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...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.
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a good reader makes a good book
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Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.
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Friendship is an order of nobility from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.
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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.
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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
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Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
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The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.
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All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
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A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.
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The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community
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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
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