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How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
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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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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Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.
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What we seek we shall find what we flee from flees from us.
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But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.
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The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
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The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.
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We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.
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The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.
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Every action has an ancestor of a thought.
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Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.
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People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.
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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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