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Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.
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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.
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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
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An answer in words is delusive it is really no answer to the questions you ask.
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Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.
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The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal, are also demonstrations of the self-sufficing, and therefore self-relying soul. All history from its highest to its trivial passages is the various record of this power.
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God will not make himself manifest to cowards
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It is with a good book as it is with good company.
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Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.
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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.
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The life of man is a self-evolving circle.
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It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.
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The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
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The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.
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The first lesson of history is that evil is good.
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Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.
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I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
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Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.
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For flowers that bloom about our feet For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet For song of bird, and hum of bee For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
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