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That which builds is better than that which is built.

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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.
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Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.
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Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All
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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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There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.
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That man is idle who can do something better.
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Everything runs to excess every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
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The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.
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Life has a way of demanding that you live it.
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The world is the ring of his spells, And the play of his miracles.
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All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us in other words, to engage us to obey.
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