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God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.
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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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
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When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.
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I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
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We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
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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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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.
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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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Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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a good reader makes a good book
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Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.
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If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.
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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
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If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.
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Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.
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