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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
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If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.
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The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.
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Literature is eavesdropping.
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Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less I have more clothes, but am nit so warm more armor, but less courage more books, but less wit.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.
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Everything intercepts us from ourselves.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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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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The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.
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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
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All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.
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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
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Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
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For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, and the town must save that the State may spend.
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Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
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