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Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.
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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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.
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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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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
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Thought is the seed of action but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.
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A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.
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I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.
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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
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Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.
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The walking of Man is falling forwards.
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The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.
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The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.
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Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.
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Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.
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Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.
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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.
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Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.
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The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.
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To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.
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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
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