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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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The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.
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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
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A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.
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The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.
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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.
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My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!
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There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
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How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
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Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
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To believe in luck ... is skepticism.
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We walk alone in the world.
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