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Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.
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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The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.
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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
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A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.
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Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle everything else is an intrigue.
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If with love thy heart has burned If thy love is unreturned Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed.
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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
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But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.
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Lose yourself in nature and find peace
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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
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Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.
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Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.
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Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.
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Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls.
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.
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